GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 321:

  The unwillingness of either political party to surrender any ground on the issue makes compromise unlikely: both sides are too_________.

  A. entrenched
  B. pessimistic
  C. dispirited
  D. obdurate
  E. wary
  F. belligerent
  D. obdurate
  F. belligerent

• Question 322:

  

  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 323:

  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.

  In the first paragraph, the author of the passage develops his argument primarily by

  A. pointing out the limitations of earlier approaches
  B. citing evidence from a range of published sources
  C. refuting a generalization by appealing to an individual case
  D. tracing different examples of a trend to the influence of a single source
  E. highlighting the merits of a particular critical framework
  B. citing evidence from a range of published sources

• Question 324:

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

• Question 325:

  When Ms. Alvarez campaigns, she lends to_________small towns: most of her campaign appearances occur in large population centers and media markets.

  A. denigrate
  B. eschew
  C. romanticize
  D. shun
  E. castigate
  F. overlook
  D. shun
  F. overlook

• Question 326:

  In the past, the region's literacy support programs had been_________distributed--abundant in places where literacy rates were relatively high, absent in places where rates were low.

  A. complexly
  B. cautiously
  C. sagaciously
  D. perversely
  E. uniformly
  D. perversely

• Question 327:

  Typefaces, in one sense, are just like styles of shoes: they________ because different people have different tastes and identities and because both creators and users value novelty for its own sake.

  A. bemuse
  B. converge
  C. proliferate
  D. abound
  E. evolve
  F. coincide
  C. proliferate
  D. abound

• Question 328:

  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 passage suggests that a galactic collision differs from galactic cannibalism in that

  A. a galactic collision usually results in the formation of a double nucleus
  B. a galactic collision usually involves two galaxies of approximately equal size
  C. the galaxies involved in a galactic collision remain distinct from each other
  D. during galactic collisions, the galaxies involved decrease in size, whereas galactic cannibalism results in an increase in the size of the galaxies
  E. while a galactic collision leaves behind only the debris of the former galaxies, galactic cannibalism leaves behind a portion of the smaller of the two original galaxies
  D. during galactic collisions, the galaxies involved decrease in size, whereas galactic cannibalism results in an increase in the size of the galaxies

• Question 329:

  Adapting to its changing environment and building its own ecological niche in interactions with other disciplines, the scientific discipline of ecology can be seen as highly_________.

  A. anarchic
  B. cerebral
  C. opportunistic
  D. speculative
  E. competitive
  C. opportunistic

• Question 330:

  

  If x and v in the equation shown are numbers that satisfy y < 0 and |x| = |y|, which of the following must be the value of x ?

  A. -5
  B. -3
  C. 1
  D. 4
  E. 5
  A. -5