GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 111:

  The term "ragtime opera" was used frequently m the first years of the twentieth century, but more often than not its use was (i)_________. The very idea of "ragtime opera" was viewed as lii)_________: opera was regarded as the highest form of musical art; ragtime was at the opposite pole.

  A. unambiguous
  B. facetious
  C. cliche
  D. an exaggeration
  E. a self-contradiction
  F. an abstraction
  B. facetious

• Question 112:

  The landmasses that we see on Earth today have moved around the globe, smashing together and splitting apart several times over the past 3 billion years. These cycles of (i)_________and (ii)_________have affected Earth's crust and underlying mantle, its atmosphere and climate, and the life ii supports.

  A. stability
  B. collapse
  C. entropy
  D. dispersal
  E. amalgamation
  F. renewal
  C. entropy
  E. amalgamation

• Question 113:

  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
  A. forthright
  F. encourages
  G. an expansive

• Question 114:

  The_________of biographies of antebellum capitalists is particularly striking in contrast with the abundance of life stones of industrialists in later eras.

  A. brevity
  B. banality
  C. utility
  D. paucity
  E. triteness
  F. dearth
  D. paucity
  F. dearth

• Question 115:

  

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

• Question 116:

  Stations A. M. and B are located along a certain train route, and Station M is between Stations A and B. At noon, a train engine passed Station A traveling at a constant speed of SO kilometers per hour toward Station B. Also at noon, another train engine passed Station B traveling at a constant speed of 60 kilometers per hour toward Station A . Botli train engines passed Station M at the same time. What is the ratio of the distance along the route between Stations A and .1/ to the distance along the route between Stations A and B ?

  

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

• Question 117:

  

  A. Quantity A is greater.
  B. Quantity B is greater.
  C. The two quantities are equal.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
  B. Quantity B is greater.

• Question 118:

  Even the most complex models used in fishery management are cartoons of reality. They reduce hundreds of links in food webs to a handful and inadequately represent processes operating over space. Many of their assumptions are as flawed today as those of the simplest models of the past. Fish stocks, for one. are still assumed to be populations of a species that are isolated from one another. Yet many populations mix at their edges and some even migrate through areas occupied by other populations. Furthermore, the more complex models suffer from a "crisis of complexity"--more is really less. Adding layers of detail, each carrying its own set of assumptions, produces instability. The model's behavior becomes erratic, and conclusions drawn from it can be downright misleading.

  Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about "models of the past"?

  A. They depended on more assumptions than do most of today's models.
  B. They often behaved less predictably than do today's more complex models.
  C. At least some of the assumptions they made are still used in models today.
  B. They often behaved less predictably than do today's more complex models.

• Question 119:

  Exhibit.

  

  Which of the following is closest to the average rate of change, in tonnes per year, for maize production from 2012 to 2017 ?

  A. 20 million
  B. 19 million
  C. 18 million
  D. 17 million
  E. 16 million
  A. 20 million

• Question 120:

  Exhibit.

  

  were S is the sum of the equal differences

  

  for

  For the shares of stock purchased and then sold by the investors shown, the mean of the 5 numbers for Stock Y is 50 and the corresponding mean for Stock X is 70. The variance of the 5 numbers for Stock }' is what fraction of the corresponding variance for Stock X ?

  

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