GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 181:

  It is hardly (i)_________that Roland, raised to (ii)_________ostentation, is building a house that is the antithesis of opulence.

  A. undeniable
  B. remarkable
  C. irrevocable
  D. savor
  E. recognize
  F. flout
  B. remarkable
  E. recognize

• Question 182:

  The importance of the Bill of Rights in twentieth-century United States law and politics has led some historians to search for the "original meaning" of its most controversial clauses. This approach. known as "originalism." presumes that each right codified in the Bill of Rights had au independent history that can be studied in isolation from the histories of other rights, and its proponents ask how formulations of the Bill of Rights in 1791 reflected developments in specific areas of legal thinking at that time. Legal and constitutional historians, for example, have found originalism especially useful in the study of provisions of the Bill of Rights that were innovative by eighteenth-century standards, such as the Fourth Amendment's broadly termed protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Recent calls in the legal and political arena for a return to a "jurisprudence of original intention." however, have made it a matter of much more than purely scholarly interest when originalists insist that a clause's true meaning was fixed at the moment of its adoption, or maintain that only those rights explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution deserve constitutional recognition and protection. These two claims seemingly lend support to the notion that an interpreter must apply fixed definitions of a fixed number of rights to contemporary issues, for the claims imply that the central problem of rights in the Revolutionary era was to precisely identity, enumerate, and define those rights that Americans felt were crucial to protecting their liberty.

  Both claims, however, are questionable from the perspective of a strictly historical inquiry, however sensible they may seem from the vantage point of contemporary jurisprudence. Even though originalists are correct in claiming that the search for original meaning is inherently historical, historians would not normally seek.

  A. It can be inferred from the passage that a jurisprudence of original intention is based on which of the following assumptions about the Bill of Rights?
  B. Its framers and ratifiers sought to protect individual rights in as many situations as possible by describing each right in broad terms.
  C. Its framers and ratifiers originally intended the rights enumerated in the various individual clauses to be interpreted in relation to one another.
  D. Each clause has a meaning that can be determined by studying its history and can be applied to contemporary issues.
  E. Each right reflects the diversity of views that its framers held about individual rights.
  F. A study of interpretations of the Bill of Rights suggests that the Bill can legitimately be read in more than one way.
  C. Its framers and ratifiers originally intended the rights enumerated in the various individual clauses to be interpreted in relation to one another.

• Question 183:

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

• Question 184:

  The iacl thai ihcre are so many varieties of youthful dissent indicates that there is considerably less_________to this counterculture than has been suggested.

  A. hypocrisy
  B. relevance
  C. spontaneity
  D. deeeneraev
  E. coherence
  E. coherence

• Question 185:

  The lengths of the sides of triangle RST are 3. 4. and v. Which of the following inequalities specifies those values of y for which each angle measure of mangle RST is less than 90°?

  

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

• Question 186:

  

  The table above summarizes customer satisfaction ratings for two banks, where each rating is an integer from 1 to 10. Which of the following statements are true? Indicate all such statements.

  A. For Bank I. if a rating is within 0.5 standard deviation of the mean rating, then the rating is 7.
  B. For Bank II. if a rating is within 0.4 standard deviation of the mean rating, then the rating is 6.
  C. The sum of all the ratings for Bank I is less than the sum of all the ratings for Bank II.
  A. For Bank I. if a rating is within 0.5 standard deviation of the mean rating, then the rating is 7.
  B. For Bank II. if a rating is within 0.4 standard deviation of the mean rating, then the rating is 6.

• Question 187:

  Our eating habits are rooted in our physiology, but they are also_________the culture in which we grow up.

  A. symbolic of
  B. mediated by
  C. influenced by
  D. ascribed to
  E. inferable from
  F. universal in
  C. influenced by
  D. ascribed to

• Question 188:

  A group of children is divided into r teams of ~ players each, and 1 team of 10 players. The group has more than 30 but less than 50 children, and each child belongs to only one team.

  

  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.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

• Question 189:

  Female Australian Duiiatothrip.% (small, sap-sucking insects] create tent-like structures on the surface of leaves to protect themselves and their eggs and larvae from desiccation in the arid Australian climate. Bono and Crespi compared survival and reproduction of tlirips that founded structures alone with those in groups of two or more individuals. They found that although per capita egg production fell with increasing group size, foundresses were more likely to survive and lay eggs in groups than when alone. Several studies of other species of nest-building insects have concluded that foundress associations are beneficial to all parties. It is likely that the relative success of groups is at least in part accounted for by a reduction of energy use in the modification of a shared nest. The author would most likely agree with which of the following claims about Australian Drmatolhrips ?

  A. Their offspring survival rates increase when larger groups cooperate to modify nests.
  B. Their effect on the leaves used to support their tent-like structures is not necessarily permanent
  C. They expend as much energy to create tent-like structures as they do to produce broods.
  D. They exhibit an effect from collective activity that is also found in certain other insect species.
  E. They modify nests in different ways depending on what other species are present in their vicinity.
  D. They exhibit an effect from collective activity that is also found in certain other insect species.

• Question 190:

  

  In the figure shown, what is the length of line segment BD?

  

  A. 5
  B. PlaceHoder
  A. 5