GRE GRE Certifications GRE-TEST Questions & Answers

• Question 91:

  Until 1992. microprocessor types were identified by number, and for a long time they were considered so _________that manufacturers would share design specifications for them.

  A. fungible

  B. interchangeable

  C. perishable

  D. integral

  E. inimitable

  F. essential

  Correct Answer: AB

• Question 92:

  To help the reader understand the actions of and the decisions made by people of another time, the historian's narrative must be_________what they knew; the narrative should not refer to anything not known until later.

  A. hinted at by

  B. antithetical to

  C. at odds with

  D. circumscribed by

  E. limited to

  F. consistent with

  Correct Answer: DF

• Question 93:

  There is a long-standing historical presumption that social custom during ihe early years of the United States forbade women from public speaking. In fact, though, the standard mode of education of the 1790s and early 1800s. which emphasized oral recitation and performance, taught girls that educated and well-spoken women had an important role to play in American society. By depicting skilled speech as a necessary talent for women in a civilized society, elocutionary education encouraged a certain degree of female ambition and even political involvement. Transmitted via standard, inexpensive schoolbooks. this message reached virtually all who read schoolbooks or attended schools. This environment did not last long, however: even by the 1S10s. attitudes about women's education had changed considerably.

  The passage suggests that women's education during the IS 10s differed from women's education during the 1790s and early 1800s in that women's education during the 1810s

  A. placed less emphasis on public speaking

  B. emphasized the relationship between rhetorical skills and civic virtue

  C. assumed that women could become politically active

  D. was based on a more modem vision of what constituted civilized society

  E. suffered from the reduced availability of inexpensive textbooks

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 94:

  Though the ant colonies of fable and film often are invested with the hierarchical organization characteristic of human societies, a real ant colony operates without_________.

  A. consciousness

  B. disorder

  C. turmoil

  D. forethought

  E. direction

  F. management

  Correct Answer: DE

• Question 95:

  Instances of "galactic cannibalism"--mergers in which large galaxies completely consume smaller ones--may be fairly common. Tidal forces produced by the Milky Way's powerful gravity, for example, appear to be dismantling and engulfing a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius, producing large clumps and streamers of stars connecting the two galaxies. Astronomers have also observed two dense clusters of stars and gas at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy, an apparent "double nucleus" that may contain the remnant of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy. But this twin-lobed appearance could also be created by two parts of a single nucleus bisected by a lane of dust. Scientists believe that only about 25 percent of such apparent double nuclei actually represent galactic cannibalism. Many of the rest result from the illusion of proximity that occurs when objects at different distances appear along the same line of sight: others consist of debris from galactic "collisions." in which one galaxy has passed through another without merging, causing waves of new star formation.

  The primary purpose of the passage is to

  A. suggest that galactic cannibalism occurs more commonly than previously supposed

  B. indicate the difficulty of determining whether galactic cannibalism has occurred in a given instance

  C. demonstrate flaws in the evidence used to prove that galactic cannibalism actually occurs

  D. outline the process by which galactic cannibalism takes place

  E. present evidence that galactic cannibalism has occurred in a given instance

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 96:

  Recently, we have seen the emergence of the food movement, or perhaps we should say "movements." since it is

  (i)_________as yet by little more than the recognition that industrial food production is in need of reform because its

  social or environmental or public health or animal welfare or gastronomic costs are too high. As that list suggests, the

  activists are coming at the issue (ii)_________. Where many social movements, over time, break into various factions

  representing differing concerns or tactics, the food movement has been (iii)_________from its beginning.

  A. tempered

  B. impeded

  C. unified

  D. in increasing numbers

  E. from divergent directions

  F. with renewed commitment

  G. ideological

  H. splintered

  I. effective

  Correct Answer: CEG

• Question 97:

  Greenberg's book presents a very good argument that there is something not quite (i)_________in the science

  community's perennial lament over inadequate budgets. Although the lament (ii)_________fears over looming

  shortages of scientifically trained personnel, the reality. Greenberg argues, is that government support for science and engineering has never been greater, with budgets continuing to grow every year--even through the past decade, when the climate for government spending generally has not been (iii)_________one.

  A. forthright

  B. original

  C. sophisticated

  D. Understates

  E. alleviates

  F. encourages

  G. an expansive

  H. a forbiddine

  I. a perilous

  Correct Answer: AFG

• Question 98:

  Instances of "galactic cannibalism"--mergers in which large galaxies completely consume smaller ones--may be fairly common. Tidal forces produced by the Milky Way's powerful gravity, for example, appear to be dismantling and engulfing a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius, producing large clumps and streamers of stars connecting the two galaxies. Astronomers have also observed two dense clusters of stars and gas at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy, an apparent "double nucleus" that may contain the remnant of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy. But this twin-lobed appearance could also be created by two parts of a single nucleus bisected by a lane of dust. Scientists believe that only about 25 percent of such apparent double nuclei actually represent galactic cannibalism. Many of the rest result from the illusion of proximity that occurs when objects at different distances appear along the same line of sight: others consist of debris from galactic "collisions." in which one galaxy has passed through another without merging, causing waves of new star formation.

  The passage suggests that a galactic collision differs from galactic cannibalism in that

  A. a galactic collision usually results in the formation of a double nucleus

  B. a galactic collision usually involves two galaxies of approximately equal size

  C. the galaxies involved in a galactic collision remain distinct from each other

  D. during galactic collisions, the galaxies involved decrease in size, whereas galactic cannibalism results in an increase in the size of the galaxies

  E. while a galactic collision leaves behind only the debris of the former galaxies, galactic cannibalism leaves behind a portion of the smaller of the two original galaxies

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 99:

  Although the percentage of first graders in Almaria who were excellent readers varied little between 1995 and 2010 the percentage of first graders who had considerable difficult)" reading their schoolbooks increased markedly during that period. This evidence strongly indicates that the average reading ability of first craders decreased between 1995 and 2010.

  Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest additional support for the argument?

  A. The number of hours devoted to reading activities in first-grade classrooms in Almana did not vary significantly, on average, between 1995 and 2010.

  B. The percentage of first graders in Almaria who had difficulty solving arithmetic problems did not increase as much between 1995 and 2010 as did the percentage of first graders who had reading difficulties.

  C. The number of children in Almaria who were enrolled as first graders decreased steadily between 1995 and 2010.

  D. The average difficulty of the schoolbooks used in first-grade classrooms m Almaria decreased between 1995 and 2010.

  E. The average number of schoolbooks used in first-grade classrooms in Almaria increased between 1995 and 2010.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 100:

  In Cleopatra: A Life. Schitf_________Cleopatra, stripping away the accretions of myth built up around the

  Egyptian queen and plucking off the imaginative embroiderings of Shakespeare and Shaw.

  A. denigrates

  B. elucidates

  C. embellishes

  D. aggrandizes

  E. demystifies

  F. manipulates

  Correct Answer: AE