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Admission Tests GMAT Online Questions & Answers

• Question 321:

  Between 1948 and 1958, 11 mKon of the 13 midion homes constructed in the United States were built In the suburbs, so that by 1960 there were as many people who lived in the suburbs as laige cities.

  A. there were as many people who lived In the suburbs as there was
  B. as many people Irving In the suburbs
  C. as the as many people lived in the suburbs as those who lived hi
  D. as many people lived in the suburbs
  E. as those in as many people lived in the suburbs as In
  E. as those in as many people lived in the suburbs as In

• Question 322:

  In the xy-plane, the point (0,3) is the vertex of a certain right angle. If the sides of the right angle intersect the x-axis at the points (-4,0) and (b,0), what is the value of b?

  

  A. Option A
  B. Option B
  C. Option C
  D. Option D
  E. Option E
  B. Option B

• Question 323:

  Taking as her focus Bengali-language books of household advice, the author traces how colonialism gradually reconfigured daily domestic life, with the result that familial and domestic authority, once held by elder women, was replaced by that of the modern colonial husband.

  A. familial and domestic authority, once held by elder women, was
  B. elder women's authority was in familial and domestic matters
  C. authority over familial and domestic matters held by elder women was
  D. elder women, the authorities in familial and domestic matters, were
  E. the authority of elder women in familial and domestic matters was
  E. the authority of elder women in familial and domestic matters was

• Question 324:

  When each of the children In a room was given the same number of crayons from a box containing 45 crayons, the number of crayons left in the box was 3 less than the number of children In the room. Which of the following could NOT have been the number of children in the room?

  A. 3
  B. 8
  C. 12
  D. 14
  E. 16
  D. 14

• Question 325:

  It is known from cave paintings and other evidence that the hunting people occupying the Bax Cave area in Country X tens of thousands of years ago repeatedly set fire to the surrounding area. Archaeologists hypothesize that because the fires caused later plant growth on the land, the hunters set the fires in order to attract herbivorous prey species. Such actions, they claim, are evidence for the mental capacity to delay gratification for weeks, months, or even years.

  Which of the following would it be most useful to determine in evaluating the archaeologists' claim?

  A. Whether the Bax Cave area is susceptible to fires caused by lightning strikes
  B. Whether remains can be found of hunting tools from tens of thousands of years ago in or near the Bax Cave
  C. Whether people occupying the Bax Cave tens of thousands of years ago consumed plants adapted to fire ecologies
  D. Whether in the immediate aftermath of fires in the Bax Cave area, animals sought by hunters came to seek prey driven out of dens or other shelters
  E. Whether the mental capacity to delay gratification for weeks, months, or even years was exhibited by contemporaries of the people occupying the Bax Cave tens of thousands of years ago
  C. Whether people occupying the Bax Cave tens of thousands of years ago consumed plants adapted to fire ecologies

• Question 326:

  Until the Apollo astronauts brought samples of lunar material to Earth during 196?72, scientists believed that the Moon's surface was largely undisturbed, given its dry, airless environment. Examination of the samples has shown otherwise. Micrometeorites, many smaller than a pencil point, constantly rain onto the Moon at up to 100,000 kilometers per hour, chipping materials or forming microscopic craters. Some melt the soil and vaporize and recondense as glassy coats on other specks of dust. Impacts weld debris into lumps of heterogeneous matter called "agglutinates." Complicated interactions with solar particle streams convert iron into myriads of microscopic iron grains. The regdith--pebbles, sand, and dust-from these erosion processes blankets the Moon. Much of the top layer consists of a complex abrasive dust of microscopic glass shards that can grind machinery and sealing devices and damage human lungs.

  The Apollo specimens held by the United States are doled out in ultra-small samples to scientists who demonstrate that nothing else will suffice for high-value experiments. Renewed interest In lunar exploration in the late 1980s meant that materials designed to simulate lunar regolith--simulants--were needed for research to develop schemes for lunar building and procedures for extracting elements such as oxygen found abundantly in regolith. That led to the development of JSC-1 in 1993, made of volcanic cinder cone from a quarry in Arizona in the U.S. The more than 22 metric tons made was in high demand. Efforts are now afoot to manufacture 16 metric tons of JSC-1 A, with 1 ton of fine grains, 14 tons of moderately fine, and 1 ton of coarse.

  The information in the passage most strongly supports which of the following claims about the samples of lunar material brought back from the Moon by the Apollo astronauts?

  Scientists for whose experiments JSC-1A would suffice are not regarded as entitled to obtain material from the samples.

  A. Only scientists working on the development of simulants of lunar regolith have access to the samples.
  B. The samples were of all the major types of lunar regolith.
  C. The samples' ingredients included some cinder cone from lunar volcanoes.
  D. Only one of the samples contained ilmenite.
  B. The samples were of all the major types of lunar regolith.

• Question 327:

  The passage most clearly indicates that which of the following types of evidence has been cited to support each of the theories mentioned in the first paragraph?

  A. The known historical geographical ranges of Indo-European languages
  B. Statistical calculations of the likely relationships among Indo-European languages
  C. Similarities among the vocabularies of different Indo-European languages
  D. Archaeological evidence suggesting when proto-Indo-European split into different Indo-European languages
  E. The archeclogically-established migration patterns of ancient peoples who spoke a language ancestral to all Indo-European languages
  C. Similarities among the vocabularies of different Indo-European languages

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The following is based on an article published in 2012. Most linguists believe proto-Indo- European, the ancestor of all Indo-European languages, was the language of chariot-driving pastoralists who spread through Eurasia from steppes north of the Black Sea about 4,000 years ago. But a competing theory is that proto-Indo-European was spoken by farmers in Anatolia (Asia Minor) about 9,000 years ago, and spread from there along with agriculture. To evaluate these hypotheses, researchers statistically compared IndoEuropean languages' vocabularies. Languages with more similar vocabularies are probably more closely related, sharing more recent common ancestors. Combining the vocabulary statistics with the known dates when certain languages split, and with their known geographical ranges, a computer calculated the most likely relationships among all Indo-European languages and concluded that protoIndo- European probably originated in Anatolia 9,000 years ago. Disputing this conclusion, skeptics argue that most Indo-European languages are similar in their words pertaining to chariots and wagons, suggesting protoIndo- European split into daughter languages only after chariots and wagons were invented. No archaeological evidence indicates that chariots and wagons existed before 5,500 years ago. Furthermore, proto-Indo-European had words for "horse" and "bee" and lent many words to proto-Uralic, the mother language of Finnish and Hungarian. The steppes north of the Black Sea were far closer than Anatolia to areas where proto-Uralic was spoken, and had more abundant wild horses and bees.

• Question 328:

  

  A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

• Question 329:

  In a study examining the neural pathway linking audtory perception to motor skills, brain scans of study participants who were tone-deaf--those unable to differentiate between or produce sounds of various pitches--revealed many fewer fibers on the arcuate fasciculus, the pathway connecting the frontal and temporal lobes, than there were In a control group of non-tone-deaf people. In 90 percent of the tone-deaf participants, researchers could not detect the superior branch of the arcuate fasciculus. The researchers concluded that they had found the anatomical cause of tone deafness.

  Which of the following would, if true, indicate a major flaw in the researchers' reasoning?

  A. Although 17 percent of the population self-identifies as tone-deaf, not all of them are clinically tone- deaf.
  B. An Inability to produce sounds that match a particular tone induces fibers of the arcuate fasciculus to atrophy and die.
  C. Many of the participants in the control group had perfect pitch, the ability to recognize and reproduce any given tone
  D. Fibers in the arcuate fasciculus of the tone-deaf participants exhibited more activity than did those of the control group.
  E. People who are tone-deaf perform similarly on tests of gross-motor skills to people who are not tone- deaf.
  B. An Inability to produce sounds that match a particular tone induces fibers of the arcuate fasciculus to atrophy and die.

• Question 330:

  

  A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient but statement (2) alone Is not sufficient.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE b sufficient.
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.