GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 261:

  Whatever the level of the museum's past (i)_________American art. it pales beside its current (ii)_________. Since

  opening its renovated and expanded building, the museum has relegated American paintings to hard-to-find comers of

  the museum. It is as if American art is < iii >_________the overwhelmingly European narrative that dominates the permanent collection galleries.

  A. advocacy of
  B. enthusiasm for
  C. neglect of
  D. craze
  E. disdain
  F. support
  G. fundamental to
  H. excluded from
  I. privileged over
  B. enthusiasm for
  E. disdain
  G. fundamental to

• Question 262:

  Despite the (i)_________nature of contemporary science, the (ii)_________of many individuals (iii)_________: the work of women and minority scientists has too often been exploited or deemed rudimentary and unworthy of inclusion into science history books.

  A. collaborative
  B. controversial
  C. sophisticated
  D. motivations
  E. contributions
  F. idiosyncrasies
  G. manifest themselves
  H. point to a solution
  I. remain overlooked
  A. collaborative
  E. contributions
  I. remain overlooked

• Question 263:

  Other company insiders have recently offered testimony that_________several of the more lurid anecdotes found in Belmer's account, though that testimony hardly minimizes the company's culture of malfeasance and mismanagement.

  A. tempers
  B. corroborates
  C. outdoes
  D. exploits
  E. foreshadows
  B. corroborates

• Question 264:

  Like paleontologists who interpret timescales from fossil evidence, we infer the history of star formation in the Milky 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 throes. 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 contains information about each of the following subjects EXCEPT the

  A. age of the Milky Way galaxy relative to the age of other galaxies
  B. events that led to the presence of heavier elements in stars
  C. time in the history of the galaxy when calcium and iron first appeared
  D. composition of early generations of stars
  E. composition of early interstellar gas clouds
  A. age of the Milky Way galaxy relative to the age of other galaxies

• Question 265:

  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. Deconstmctionists 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.

  It can be inferred from the passage that on the issue of how to analyze a literary work, the new historic its would most likely agree with the deconstructionists that

  A. the writer's insights and ideas should be understood in terms of the writer's historical context
  B. the writer's literary personality has little or no relevance
  C. the critic should primarily focus on intertextuality. subtexts, and metatexts
  B. the writer's literary personality has little or no relevance

• Question 266:

  The probability that event R will occur is 0.65. The probability that event T will occur is 0.47.

  

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

• Question 267:

  Which of die following is a reasoning error committed by the argument?

  A. It contuses being the first to discover a method of achieving a certain goal with being the first to publish that method.
  B. It treats a condition that is necessary* to achieve a certain goal as though it were sufficient to achieve that goal.
  C. It supposes that if something is essential to one way of achieving a certain goal, then it is essential to any way of achieving that goal.
  D. It fails to distinguish adequately between methods of achieving a certain goal available at one time and methods of achieving that goal available at another time.
  E. It claims that a person who did not originate a method for achieving a certain goal would not understand that method.
  C. It supposes that if something is essential to one way of achieving a certain goal, then it is essential to any way of achieving that goal.

• Question 268:

  

  The three children in the Alden family contributed 30 percent of the amount budgeted for savings. The oldest child contributed SI50 more than the youngest child, and the middle child contributed $60 more than the youngest child. What was the median of the amounts that the children contributed to savings ?

  A. $230
  B. $270
  C. $290
  D. $300
  E. $380
  C. $290

• Question 269:

  Birds that prey on sage grouse generally hunt by circling over sagebrush and pouncing on sage grouse that come out into the open. Where there are power lines, however, these predators often survey the ground while sitting on the power lines. Although the area they can survey is smaller, predators sitting on power lines are more likely to catch sage grouse than are predators circling in the air. because_________,

  The primary purpose of the passage is to

  A. explain why certain scientists rejected a particular hypothesis
  B. show how a conventional theory was weakened by a new discovery
  C. discuss a shift in an approach to explaining a natural phenomenon
  D. account for the widespread influence of a scientific theory
  E. trace the origins of a scientific dispute
  B. show how a conventional theory was weakened by a new discovery

• Question 270:

  The five points C, D, E, F, and G lie on the number line, in that order from left to right, so that CD = 1.5 (EF) and DE = 1.5 (FG).

  

  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.