GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 161:

  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.
  B. Quantity B is greater.

• Question 162:

  The average (arithmetic mean) and the median of a set of 5 numbers is 0. and the set contains at least one number that is not equal to 0. Which of the following statements must be true?

  A. Exactly one of the numbers is not equal to 0.
  B. Exactly one of the numbers is negative.
  C. Exactly two of the numbers are negative.
  D. The set has the same number of positive numbers as negative numbers.
  E. The sum of the nonzero numbers in the set is 0.
  D. The set has the same number of positive numbers as negative numbers.

• Question 163:

  There is a long-standing historical presumption that social custom during the 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 author would probably agree with which of the following statements about the "historical presumption"?

  A. It failed to account for the fact that certain abilities in young women were deemed desirable in the 1790s and 1800s.
  B. It had largely died out by the 1810s.
  C. It had an important influence on the content of textbooks used during the 1790s and the 1800s.
  A. It failed to account for the fact that certain abilities in young women were deemed desirable in the 1790s and 1800s.

• Question 164:

  The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers leaving the recent screening appeared_________

  A. complacent
  B. phlegmatic
  C. unsated
  D. beguiled
  C. unsated

• Question 165:

  

  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 166:

  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.

  In the context of the passage, the highlighted portion serves to

  A. confirm a prediction
  B. demonstrate an oversimplification
  C. recommend a reformulation
  D. anticipate an objection
  E. question a finding
  B. demonstrate an oversimplification

• Question 167:

  Since scientific truths must be discovered, and since many, probably most, are far from (i)_________. Futile investigations are (ii)_________. Thus, the path to the truth is decidedly a (iii)_________one.

  A. intuitively obvious
  B. routinelv acelauned
  C. hie vi table
  D. sinuous
  E. potentially useful
  F. auspicious
  G. ne eligible
  H. clandestine
  I. progressive
  A. intuitively obvious
  D. sinuous
  G. ne eligible

• Question 168:

  Economists use two competing models to describe the effects of commercial advertising--advertising as market competition and advertising as market power. The market competition model holds that the fundamental function of advertising is to provide information about products and brands. It is argued that information in ads permits greater marketplace efficiencies, such as lower prices and reduced monopoly power. In a similar vein, much discussion regarding political advertising has rested on its informational value Does political advertising provide political information and help voters make informed decisions'1 Nelson argues that promoting bars of soap in commercial ads is no different than promoting political ideas ideology from political candidates in political ads. on the grounds that information is being distributed m both cases. Others, such as Ferguson and Jamieson, disagree with Nelson's proposition Ferguson, for example, pointed out that choosing a political candidate is more like buying an experience good (where the quality is hard to evaluate prior to purchase) rather than a search good (where the quality is easily evaluated before the purchase). According to Ferguson, claims in political ads do not have true informational value, because it is difficult for voters to draw inferences about the future deeds of a candidate from what the ads say Furthermore. Jamieson argues that political ads reshape the public image of political candidates and change voters' feelings about the candidates with subtle emotional cues but without substantive information upon which to base a reasoned judgment.

  The passage implies that Ferguson and Jamieson agree that political advertising

  A. focuses primarily on the communication of subtle emotional cues
  B. Is largely ineffective at promoting particular candidates
  C. misleads voters about the beliefs and future actions of candidates
  D. has only a temporary effect on the public images of candidates
  E. cannot be relied upon by voters who want to make informed decisions
  C. misleads voters about the beliefs and future actions of candidates

• Question 169:

  The cube root of which of the following integers is equal to

  

  A. 570
  B. 3,000
  C. 9.000
  D. 27. 000
  E. 216. 000
  B. 3,000

• Question 170:

  Unfortunately. most of the (i)_________suburbia comes from metropolitan critics who glimpse it only fleethigly. Accustomed to the more structured forms of the city, they see only visual (ii)_________. And failing to recognize the interactions customary in an urban setting in the social and community life of suburbanites, they see social (iii)_________and miss the real diversity and richness.

  A. appreciation of
  B. analysis of
  C. encroachment on
  D. chaos
  E. analogies
  F. enhancements
  G. development
  H. practices
  B. analysis of
  E. analogies
  F. enhancements