GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 291:

  Ii is irue lhal science, and more particularly scientists._________cherished paradigms with great reluctance and that when they do. scientific revolutions may result.

  A. unify
  B. share
  C. cede
  D. embrace
  E. dismantle
  F. relinquish
  C. cede
  F. relinquish

• Question 292:

  

  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 293:

  Discussions of the collapse of the lowland Maya are not new. However, it might be better to say that Maya civilization as a whole did not collapse, although many zones did experience profound change. Because societies are not bounded, unitary entities. collapses are rarely total, and continuity is a normal pan of collapse At the end of the Classic period [200-900C.E.]. the institution of divine kingship and many of the well-known markers of elite culture such a-, caned stelae [slabs erected for funerals or commemorative purposes] and hieroglyphic polychromes [multicolored artistic pottery] ended, but Maya civilization continued in modified form with many important features intact (e.g.. literacy, war. art. the production of fine ceramics). In some cases large buildings were constructed in the Postclassic period [900-1512 C.E.], but the transition to the Early Postclassic [900-1200C.E.] era is distinctive for a decrease in elite goods and contexts. The variability in artifact changes during the Terminal Classic [800-900 C.E.] and into the Postclassic. even within artifact classes (e.g.. line versus unslipped ceramics), suggests weaker centralized control than during the Classic period. Site abandonments in the Terminal Classic indicate the collapse of the functional ability of Maya states, but sites that survived show that Maya civilization continued albeit without divine kingship and much of the spectacle around it. According to the passage, which of the following statements about the institution of divine kingship is true?

  A. It remained strong through the end of the Classic period.
  B. It was not a feature of the Poslclassic period.
  C. Its demise led to the collapse of Maya civilization.
  D. Its importance has been overestimated by many scholars.
  E. Its spectacle became too onerous a burden for Maya society to support.
  B. It was not a feature of the Poslclassic period.

• Question 294:

  

  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 295:

  An investor purchased two properties. A and B. The investor later sold property A at a selling price that was 20 percent more than the purchase price of A. and the investor sold property B at a selling price that was 40 percent less than the purchase price of B. If the combined purchase price of properties A and B was S200.000 and the combined selling price was S210.000. what was the selling price of property A?

  A. $I 60.000
  B. $I 70.000
  C. $I 80.000
  D. $I 90.000
  E. $200.000
  C. $I 80.000

• Question 296:

  Of the 67 children residing on a certain street, 52 children enjoy biking and 21 children enjoy roller-skating. If all but 5 of the children enjoy biking or roller-skating or both, how many of the children enjoy either biking or roller-skating, but not both biking and roller- skating?

  A. 11
  B. 31
  C. 51
  D. 61
  E. 62
  C. 51

• Question 297:

  The geographer held a (i)________view of the succession of theoretical trends (environmental determinism, spatial determinism, and various types of critical theory) in her field, maintaining that theory can (n)________what is transpiring in a complex environment by focusing excessively on the favored schemes and variables of the moment.

  A. self-contradictory
  B. sanguine
  C. deprecatory
  D. exacerbate
  E. obfuscate
  F. magnify
  C. deprecatory
  E. obfuscate

• Question 298:

  Since it was committed to the idea of science as an international, politically neutral enterprise, the Royal Society of London refused to_________members from enemy nations during the world wars of the twentieth century.

  A. betray
  B. expel
  C. endorse
  D. oust
  E. sanction
  F. condemn
  B. expel
  D. oust

• Question 299:

  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 300:

  Instances of "galactic cannibalism"--mergers in which large galaxies completely consume smaller ones--may be fairly common. Tidal forces produced by the Milky Way's powerful gravity, for example, appear to be dismantling and engulfing a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius, producing large clumps and streamers of stars connecting the two galaxies. Astronomers have also observed two dense clusters of stars and gas at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy, an apparent "double nucleus" that may contain the remnant of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy. But this twin-lobed appearance could also be created by two parts of a single nucleus bisected by a lane of dust. Scientists believe that only about 25 percent of such apparent double nuclei actually represent galactic cannibalism. Many of the rest result from the illusion of proximity that occurs when objects at different distances appear along the same line of sight: others consist of debris from galactic "collisions." in which one galaxy has passed through another without merging, causing waves of new star formation.

  The primary purpose of the passage is to

  A. suggest that galactic cannibalism occurs more commonly than previously supposed
  B. indicate the difficulty of determining whether galactic cannibalism has occurred in a given instance
  C. demonstrate flaws in the evidence used to prove that galactic cannibalism actually occurs
  D. outline the process by which galactic cannibalism takes place
  E. present evidence that galactic cannibalism has occurred in a given instance
  C. demonstrate flaws in the evidence used to prove that galactic cannibalism actually occurs