GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 221:

  Recent studies of the gender gap in the history of United States politics tend to focus on candidate choice rather than on registration and turnout. This shift in focus away from gender inequality in political participation may be due to the finding in several studies of voting behavior in the United States that since 1980. differences in rates of registration and voting between men and women are not statistically significant after controlling for traditional predictors of participation. However. Fullerton and Stern argue that researchers have overlooked the substantial gender gap in registration and voting in the South. While the gender gap in participation virtually disappeared outside the South by the 1950s, substantial gender differences persisted in the South throughout the 1950s and 1960s, only beginning to decline in the 1970s.

  The passage is primarily concerned with

  A. establishing the chronology of a transition
  B. discussing a perceived oversight
  C. explaining the reasons for a change
  D. evaluating an underlying assumption
  E. confirming the merits of a claim
  C. explaining the reasons for a change

• Question 222:

  For a certain type of can. the number of grams of aluminum per can decreased by 20 percent from 1994 to 1998. while the cost per gram of aluminum decreased by 60 percent. If the cost of the aluminum in y cans in 1994 was equal to the cost of aluminum in A v cans in 1998. then k =

  A. 3. 125
  B. 4. 25
  C. 5. 125
  D. 6. 25
  E. 7. 875
  A. 3. 125

• Question 223:

  There is a rather________ reason for astronomers sudden interest in comets: most other bodies in the solar system have been explored already.

  A. pedantic
  B. prosaic
  C. controversial
  D. untenable
  E. mysterious
  B. prosaic

• Question 224:

  How much more is 20 percent of x than

  

  of 1 percent of x?

  A. 0.18x
  B. 0.192x
  C. 0.198x
  D. 0.19.8x
  D. 0.19.8x

• Question 225:

  Iii recent years ii has become common for industrial workers who do heavy lifting to wear special wide leather belts that are advertised as reducing back strain. However, physiologists doubt that these belts actually reduce back strain. In fact the belts must put additional strain on the back, since records of injuries to industrial workers show that people wearing the belts were significantly more likely to suffer a back injury than were others doing the same job.

  Which of die following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

  A. The special belts were first popularized by recreational weight lifters.
  B. For more than a decade, the overall rate of back injuries among industrial workers has been increasing.
  C. Because of changes in federal safety regulations, records of worker injuries have become much more comprehensive in recent years.
  D. In recent years the length of the average workweek--measured in hours--has increased dramatically for industrial workers who do heavy lifting.
  E. Those workers who chose to wear the special belts always tended to follow proper safety practices on the job.
  B. For more than a decade, the overall rate of back injuries among industrial workers has been increasing.

• Question 226:

  Writing for the New York Times in 1971. Saul Braun claimed that - todays superhero is about as much like his predecessors as today's child is like his parents." In an unprecedented article on the state of American comics, "Shazam! Here Comes Captain Relevant. Braun wove a story of an industry whose former glory producing jingoistic fantasies of superhuman power in the 1930s and 1940s had given way to a canny interest in revealing the power structures against which ordinary people and heroes alike struggled following World War II Quoting a description of a course on 稢omparative Comics" at Brown University, he wrote, 'New heroes are different--they ponder moral questions, have emotional differences, and are just as neurotic as real people. Captain America openly sympathizes with campus radicals.. Lois Lane apes John Howard Griffin and turns herself black to study racism, and everybody battles to save the environment."" Five years earlier. Esquire had presaged Braun s claims about comic books: generational appeal, dedicating a spread to the popularity of superhero comics among university students in their special 'College Issue." As one student explained. "My favorite is the Hulk. I identify with him, he's the outcast against the institution.'1 Only months after the NW York Times article saw print. Rolling Stone published a six-page expose on the inner workings of Marvel Comics, while Ms. Magazine emblazoned Wonder Woman on the cover of its premier issue--declaring s Wonder Woman for President'' no less--and devoted an article to the origins of the latter- day feminist superhero.

  Where little more than a decade before comics had signaled the moral and aesthetic degradation of American culture, by 1971 they had come of age as America's "native art::: taught on Ivy League campuses, studied by European scholars and filmmakers, and translated and sold around the world, they were now taken up as a new generation's critique of American society. The concatenation of these sentiments among such diverse publications revealed that the growing popularity and public interest in comics (and comic- book superheroes) spanned a wide demographic spectrum, appealing to middle-class urbamtes, college-age men. members of the counterculture, and feminists alike. At the heart of this newfound admiration for comics lay a glaring yet largely unremarked contradiction: the cultural regeneration of the comic-book medium was made possible by the revamping of a key American fantasy figure, the superhero, even as that figure was being lauded for its realism"" and social relevance."" As the title of Braun's article suggests, in the early 1970s, "relevance" became a popular buzzword denoting a shift in comic-book content from oblique narrative metaphors for social problems toward direct representations of racism and sexism, urban blight, and political corruption.

  The author of the passage talks about Wonder Woman primarily to

  A. provide an example of a change in the public perception of comics" characters
  B. identify the gender stereotypes in comics against which feminists struggled
  C. suggest the extent to which the comics industry remained a male-dominated field
  D. note a significant improvement in the way women were represented in comics
  E. contest the claim that superheroes were generally portrayed as outcasts
  A. provide an example of a change in the public perception of comics" characters

• Question 227:

  Through a steady stream of books, articles, and speeches, he sought to provide (i)_________analysis of political and economic issues, thus (ii)_________, rather than merely touting, the social utility of the scientific method.

  A. a dispassionate
  B. a jaundiced
  C. an intuitive
  D. demonstrating
  E. undermining
  F. praising
  C. an intuitive
  D. demonstrating

• Question 228:

  

  A list of the names of the people of the entire 1990 foreign-born population in neighborhood V was generated, with each person's name appearing once. The names of 2 different people will be randomly selected from the list. Which of the following is closest to the probability that both names selected will be names of people whose region of origin was "Other"?

  A. 0.01
  B. 0.11
  C. 0.39
  D. 0.49
  A. 0.01

• Question 229:

  Harriet Monroe, who founded Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1912. argued that the more heterogeneous and sprawling the modem world became, the more poetry needed "an entrenched place, a voice of power." But this goal could only be realized if poets were valued in ways that encouraged them to participate in the world and made writing verse economically viable. Monroe argued that poets needed sites of institutional opportunity like those that had been developed for visual artists, architects, and musicians. She believed that the hand-wringing anticapitalism dominating genteel literary* culture--particularly the idea that poetry ought to be removed from "sordid" pecuniary considerations--brought no economic and only illusory aesthetic benefits, instead severing poets from meaningful participation in the modern world.

  The author mentions "visual artists, nrchitecis. and musicians" primarily lo

  A. note a challenge that Monroe faced when attempting to implement her ideas
  B. highlight what Monroe regarded as a contrast between the economic needs of poets and those of other artists
  C. explain Monroe's ideas about measures that would advance poetry
  D. acknowledge that anticapitalism had not hail undesirable consequences for all art forms
  E. illustrate the point that some art forms are inherently more economically viable than others
  B. highlight what Monroe regarded as a contrast between the economic needs of poets and those of other artists

• Question 230:

  Not only do the brains of people with great memories appear anatomically_________those of control subjects, but in terms of general cognitive ability, great memorizers appear to be well within the normal range.

  A. superior to
  B. incomparable to
  C. younger than
  D. independent of
  E. indistinguishable from
  C. younger than