GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 131:

  Exhibit.

  

  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.
  C. The two quantities are equal.

• Question 132:

  

  In the figure above, what is the length of AB?

  A. 15
  B. 16
  C. 17
  D. 18
  E. 19
  B. 16

• Question 133:

  Whereas Hellennan attribured her (i)_________as a pianist to her teacher's pedagogical (ii)_________. her teacher attributed them to Hellennan*s own desultory practice habits.

  her teacher

  A. struggles
  B. exploits
  C. accomplishments
  D. exertions
  E. eccentricities
  F. adroitness
  C. accomplishments
  D. exertions

• Question 134:

  Larvae of many marine invertebrate species delay their metamorphosis into juveniles when cues signaling an appropriate juvenile environment are absent, thereby increasing then* likelihood of thriving as juveniles and of ultimately reaching adulthood Nevertheless, delayed metamorphosis has potential costs for juveniles including reduced growth and increased mortality Nearly all evidence of such costs involves species whose larvae do not feed but rather subsist on stored nutrients, indicating that insufficient energy reserves may be an underlying cause of these costs. Supporting this hypothesis are laboratory studies showing that in a certain bryozoan. the prolonged larval swimming that results from delayed metamorphosis is associated with size reductions in the juvenile feeding organ (the lophophore) and that one factor influencing the size of juveniles of certain barnacle species is how long larvae delay metamorphosis However, other studies show that while significantly fewer juvenile Capitella worms survived to adulthood when metamorphosis had been delayed, prolonged larval swimming had no significant effect on juvenile size, suggesting, perhaps, that in some species, factors other than insufficient energy reserves account for the negative effects of the larval stresses that result from delayed metamorphosis.

  The "hypothesis" implies that compared to marine invertebrate larvae that subsist on stored nutrients, marine invertebrate larvae that feed are less likely to

  A. exhibit prolonged larval swimming as a result of delayed metamorphosis
  B. experience negative effects as a result of delayed metamorphosis
  C. thrive as juveniles in environments inappropriate for juveniles
  D. delay metamorphosis in the absence of appropriate environmental cues
  E. delay metamorphosis for an extended period of time
  B. experience negative effects as a result of delayed metamorphosis

• Question 135:

  In a survey of 150 computer owners, 98 owned a primer. 72 owned a digital camera, and all of them owned either a printer or a digital camera or both.

  

  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.
  C. The two quantities are equal.

• Question 136:

  The relevance of the literary personality--a writer's distinctive attitudes, concerns, and artistic choices--to the analysis of a literary work is being scrutinized by various schools of contemporary criticism. Deconstructionists view the literary personality, like the writer's biographical personality, as irrelevant. The proper focus of literary analysis, they argue, is a work's intertextuality (interrelationship with other texts), subtexts (unspoken, concealed. or repressed discourses), and metatexts (self-referential aspects), not a perception of a writer's verbal and aesthetic "fingerprints." New historicists also devalue the literary personality, since, in their emphasis on a work's historical context, they credit a writer with only those insights and ideas that were generally available when the writer lived. However, to readers interested in literary detective work--say scholars of classical (Greek and Roman) literature who wish to reconstruct damaged texts or deduce a work's authorship-- the literary personality sometimes provides vital clues.

  Which of the following does the author mention in the passage as a concern of (^constructionists?

  A. A knowledge of the writer's other literary works
  B. A knowledge of the writer's artistic preferences
  C. A cognizance of a work's unarticulated ideas
  D. An appreciation of a work's aesthetic distinctiveness
  E. An awareness of a work's relation to the era in which it was written
  A. A knowledge of the writer's other literary works

• Question 137:

  

  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.
  C. The two quantities are equal.

• Question 138:

  Like paleontologists who interpret timescales from fossil evidence, we infer the history of star formation in the Milks' Way galaxy from the heavy-element composition of its stars. According to the big bang theory of the origin of the universe, the first gas clouds--and the first generation of stars formed from them--were composed of pure hydrogen and helium; most heavier elements-- iron and calcium, for example--came later, created by explosions of supernovas, massive stars in their death thaws. Loaded with heavy elements, material ejected from supernovas enriched the interstellar gas clouds from which the next generation of stars formed, the level of heavy elements increasing with succeeding generations. Because most stars live for many billions of years and because the Milky Way is thus composed of multiple stellar generations, comparing the number of stars of low heavy-element abundance with those of high heavy-element abundance enables astronomers to untangle the history of star formation in the Milky Way.

  The passage implies that if a star contains calcium, then the

  A. star does not belong to the first generation of stars
  B. star does not contain any hydrogen or helium
  C. calcium was not formed by the explosion of a supernova
  A. star does not belong to the first generation of stars

• Question 139:

  The probabilities assigned to the four possible outcomes of an experiment are p1, p2, p3, and p4. If these outcomes are mutually exclusive, which of the following could be P1.p2. p3 and p4 ?

  A. 0.10, 0.05, 0.50, 0.30
  B. 0.10, 0.50, 0.05, 0.60
  C. 0.25, 0.25, 0.50, 0.30
  D. 0.25, 0.05, 0.10, 0.60
  E. 0.50, 0.25, 0.50. 0.30
  C. 0.25, 0.25, 0.50, 0.30

• Question 140:

  In the 1980s the press release announcing the discovery of a new fundamental particle turned a once_______

  hypothesis of interest to no more than a few hundred physicists into an undisputed fact of global significance.

  A. cogent
  B. fungible
  C. recondite
  D. preeminent
  E. discretionary
  C. recondite