60 text completion questions collected
from real GRE exams
1
Although Emily Brontë is impassioned about gender equality, she is anything but
______ to endorse more privileges endowing to women.
(A) zealous
(B) apathetic
(C) abhorrent
(D) stubborn
(E) lethargic
2 Many of
the towns that have voted to keep incinerators in the county’s solid waste plan
have done so not because they necessarily ____ incinerators, but because they
are ____ to narrow their wastedisposal options.
(A) disdain … expecting
(B) favor … inclined
(C) dote on … eager
(D) approve of … loath
(E) deplore … unwilling
3 That
guild of experts has always appraised the economic stimulation plan as
bootless, while the advocates of the policy do not take their ______ evaluation
for granted.
(A) tendentious
(B) meticulous
(C) treacherous
(D) ubiquitous
(E) deprecatory
4 For
decades, economists’ ideas have been (i) ______ politics. For example,
economists peddled their pet theories for academical preeminence and for
political appointment, while politicians (ii) ______ those theories as
solutions of social problems.
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(A) exploited to |
(D) promoted |
5
Although Emily Brontë is little impassioned about gender equality, she is
anything but ______ to endorse more privileges endowing to women.
(A) zealous
(B) apathetic
(C) abhorrent
(D) stubborn
(E) lethargic
6 Higher
energy prices would have many (i) ______ effects on society as a whole. Besides
encouraging consumers to be more (ii) ______ in their use of gasoline, they
would encourage the development of renewable alternative energy sources that
are not (iii) ______ at current prices.
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(A) pernicious |
(D) aggressive |
(G) unstable |
7 Many of
the towns that have voted to keep incinerators in the county’s solid-waste plan
have done so not because they necessarily (i) ______ incinerators, but because
they are (ii) ______ to narrow their waste-disposal options.
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(A) question |
(D) willing |
8. So (i)
______ is the police’s corruption and (ii) ______ that it has been a tradition
that every newly-appointed police chef pledges to (iii) ______ the force.
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(A) unfounded |
(D) incompetence |
(G) reform |
9
Learning is a (i) ______ process. Because of that, in most test-based
materials, reading is more (ii) ______ than watching a DVD. The more passive a
person is, the more information that is going to pass through without entering
brain.
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(A)
participatory |
(D) interesting |
10
Nevertheless, the claim—advocated by many experts—that a child acts more like a
‘grammatical genius’ than an empty slate, a ‘tabula rasa’, ready to be written
on and forged by experience, seem ______ to those who think of language as the
zenith of the human intellect and who think of instincts as brute impulses that
compel furry or feathered zombies to build a dam or up and fly south.
(A) tangent
(B) prehensile
(C) manifest
(D) consonance
(E) jarring
11
”RESIGNATION”, an English word the French novelist Christian Oster would no
doubt appreciate, presents an elegant paradox: in one sense, it indicates a
bold step, a cleaving of oneself from an attachment grown onerous; in another,
it’s the height of ______, an acquiescence to fate.
(A) sham
(B) fissure
(C) desperation
(D) passivity
(E) maturity
12
Despite the book has ______ language and an abridged dictionary, I still find a
lot of things about eighteenth century.
(A) lamented
(B) antipathic
(C) rarified
(D) pellucid
(E) aggresive
13 To
have (i) ______ book reviews is in defense of the value and… hope that the
author, having his/her (ii)______ pointed out, secretly knows that it could be
improved.
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(A) hortatory |
(D) strength |
14
Despite its (i) ______ cover, the book is very (ii) ______.
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(D) onerous |
(G) cynicism |
15
Stories are a haunted genre; hardly (i) ______ kind of story, the ghost story
is almost the paradigm of the form, and (ii) ______ was undoubtedly one effect
that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how stories work.
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(A) a debased |
(D) pessimism |
16 No
other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned reputation for (i)
______, and there are few whose moral vision is so imperiously unsparing. Of
late, however, the almost belligerent demands of his severe and densely
forbidding poetry have taken an improbable turn. This new collection is the poet’s
fourth book in six years─an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition,
let alone for one of such (ii)______ over the previous 50 years. Yet for all
his newfound (iii) ______, his poetry is as thorny as ever.
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(A) patent
accessibility |
(D) penitential
austeriy |
(G) taciturnity |
17 Modern
readers ofteh think ancient Rome or Greek literature’s moral sentiment vapid,
but people from the 17th century found them ______.
(A) arcane
(B) dogmatic
(C) didactic
(D) jejune
(E) perplexed
18 As for
choice, behavorial economists will tell you that it is possible to have too
much of a good thing. A (i)_____ of choices can be paralyzing, as Barry
Schwartz pointed out in his recent book “The Paradox of Choice.” Ask shoppers
in a supermarket to taste six different jams, and odds are that they’ll buy the
jam they like the best. Offer them twenty four different jams, and odds are
they’ll walk away without buying any. Studies show that the more investment
choices a plan offers, the less likely people are to participate in it. In this
regard, Social Security’s lack of flexibility may actually be a (ii) _____.
People (iii) _____ some upside, in exchange for peace of mind.
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(A) sufficient |
(D) gift |
(G) consider |
19 People
in iceland have a saying that every icelander is a writter. Although this seems
(i) ______, (ii) ______, on average, 1 in every 250 people has published a
book.
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(A) sarcasm |
(D) stress |
20 The
playwright’s approach is (i) ______ in that her works (ii) ______ the
theatrical devices normally used to create drama on the stage.
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(A) pedestrian |
(D) jettison |
21 This
filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters: her films are known for their
aesthetic qualities rather than for their ______ ones.
(A) polemical
(B) cinematic
(C) narrative
(D) commercial
(E) dramatic
22 For Ruskin,
architecture serves the community only when approached in a spirit of piety and
(i) ______. Architecture must set effective boundaries to public space, and it
does so by (ii) ______ the desire to show off, to stand out, to record the
artistic flair of some temporary ego. Architecture succeeds in its public task
through (iii) ______ and devotion, of the kind that can be observed in the
moulding, firing and laying of a properly proportioned brick, but which is
violated at every point by Frank Gehry’s bombastic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
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(A) altruism |
(D) retrieving |
(G) humility |
23 As the
study of the foundation of western Shanghai reveals, there was a sense of
elegance in the refined, simple lines that characterized the entire row, bereft
of the exuberant, emphatic, assertive, ornament that constituted the latest
British architectural fashion, which expressed its detestation of Palladianism
and neoclassicism – London’s Regent Street then being regarded as abhorrent –
calling it the product of a (i) ______“shopocracy”. The (ii) ______ of Western
architectural taste – oscillating between simplicity and ornamental (iii)
______ – must have bemused Chinese
observers who had long accepted that both approaches were valid and could
co-exist.
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(A) superficial |
(D) impermanence |
(G) profundity |
24 As a
result of lacking strong opposing organization to ______, the chief focus their
rancor on one another at the conference where the issues were put forward and intended
to be resolved.
(A) immolate
(B) excoriate
(C) parley
(D) exterminate
(E) collaborate
25
Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the
low levels of serious conflict among members of democratically run work groups:
a modicum of tolerance for dissent often prevents ______.
(A) demur
(B) schism
(C) cooperation
(D) compliance
(E) shortsightedness
26 A
manager should (i) ______ the power that is not (ii) ______, but he should make
good use of the power it retains.
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(A) consolidate |
(D) forbidden |
27
Scientists at chocolate manufactuer attempts to (i) ______ cocoa bean’s
chemical composition, so that they can (ii) ______ the taste of cocoa bean in
order to (iii) ______ a failure from cocoa bean suppliers.
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(A) unlock |
(D) description |
(G) prevent |
28 Trying
to cover the vast US history in a few hundreds pages often led critics to
disregard his work, overlooking his emphasis of (i) ______ and (ii) ______.
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(A) brevity |
(C) complexity |
29
Sylvester takes on a solemn and sagacious persona, the expression of his
commitment to a deliberate conversation to a disconcerting and hypnotic pace,
but this ______ could be intimidating.
(A) gravitas
(B) ingénue
(C) banality
(D) lassitude
(E) solicitude
30 The
paradoxical characteristic of the reliable employee Donna is her ______, when
we consider her usual feigning illness to escape from her labor.
(A) halcyon
(B) charlatan
(C) malingering
(D) retribution
(E) earnestness
31 She
demonstrates great extent of ______, as she has traveled to many more countries
and places around the world than any of her kindred.
(A) perfidiousness
(B) peregrination
(C) jubilation
(D) sagaciousness
(E) conspicuousness
32 Most
of characters in her novel are already lampooned figures; however, she (i)
______ this tradition to avoid (ii) ______.
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(A) relies on |
(D)
verisimilitude |
33 In her
works, she (i) ______ confidence. She gets excessively (ii) ______ to
authorities, even when rejecting their views.
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(A) inspire |
(D) pugnacious |
34 Folk
music remained (i) ______ by reinforcing ethical identities; nonetheless, it
was (ii) ______ in the countryside where it originated.
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(A) traditional |
(D) declined |
35 The
family take importance on face value and has no tolerance to ______ .
(A) insensitivity
(B) dissimulation
(C) self-absorption
(D) self-promotion
(E) counter argument
36 The
question whether children like sweeter or not is (i) ______. Of course children
like sweeter, which is (ii) ______ to sellers, since children’s taste will not
change once it is used to a certain brand.
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(A) debated |
(D) pragmatic |
37
Behavior economists found that the more (i) ______ options listed on the
insurance make people all the more offish to endorse, partly because they hope
to (ii) ______ some (iii) ______ in order to get a measure of peace of mind.
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(A) lucrative |
(D) forgo |
(G) convolution |
38
Consumers are (i) ______ to spend $50 to subscribe magazines, but they will
(ii) ______ a few cents for reading an article.
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(A) reluctant |
(D) lay out |
39 Before
divulging the nature of the study, the scientists expected the public reaction
to be ______, predicting that they will get macabre result; thus they carefully
prepare a press conference to explain the worth and medical benefit of the
research.
(A) repercussion
(B) indifference
(C) trifling criticism
(D) approval
(E) fanatic
40 His
theory cannot be regarded as (i) ______. Although he quoted some esoteric ideas
in the theory, he was never (ii) ______.
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(A) innovative |
(D) obscured |
41
Hidebound by cloying commercial radio and clueless record executives, the
American pop music scene has frequently depended on cities at the edges of the
cultural map to provide a much-needed shot of (i)______. Seattle, Minneapolis,
Austin, Texas, and Athens, Georgia, have all served as temporary pivot points,
churning out bands and defining the sound of the moment. Even Omaha, Nebraska,
had its 15 minutes not so long ago. The momentary (ii) ______ seems to come out
of nowhere – as if someone blows a whistle only those in the know can hear, and
suddenly record executives and journalists are crawling all over what had
previously been an obscure locale.
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(A) originality |
(D) consensus |
42 The
use of the term ‘greenhouse effect’ is a complete ______, because it is not a
veracious description of such a complicated transformation.
(A) anomaly
(B) spontaneity
(C) mishap
(D) misnomer
(E) appositeness
43 Dr.
McDonald, a famous scientist in anthropology, believes that conventional
scientific inquiry is (i) ______in its pursuit, since recently the study of
social science draws on lots of statistics and probabilities; as a result, (ii)
______ of the social science takes priority due to McDonald’s conviction that
moral issues should be certain rather than probable.
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(A) barren |
(D) certitude |
44
Weather could exhibits consistent and predictable patterns. Although this may
appear true for regional areas, on the global scale the pattern actually has
some ______.
(A) reliability
(B) complexity
(C) discontinuity
(D) simplicity
(E) predictablility
45 Laser
has been widely utilized in many industries such as Packaging Industry, CD
player, sort of commonplace articles; however, the (i) ______ of laser doesn’t
mean laser can only be used in (ii) ______ ways.
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(A) rare
extermination |
(D) assorted |
46 In the
past, the discussion of artificial light was (i) ______. When electrification
spread, the talking of artificial light became (ii) ______ because the material
and technology is more widely available to the public.
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(A) engaging |
(D) dull |
47 For
environment protection nanotechnology is a/an (i) ____ discovery, but it’s not
(ii) ____ at all even though the concept is (iii) ____. It still remains
theoretical in labs.
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(A) banal |
(D) pragmatic |
(G) lucid |
48 The
order applies to all Federal agency whose actions may affect the status of
invasive species and requires agencies to identify such actions and to the
extent practicable and permitted by law, and since invasive species severely
reduce the number of native species and even (i) ______ their existence, the
agency has determined and made public its determination that the benefits of
such actions clearly outweigh the potential harm caused by invasive species;
and that all feasible and (ii) ______ measures to (iii) ______ risk of harm of
the introduction of invasive species will be taken in conjunction with the
actions.
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(A) escalate |
(D) prudent |
(G) remedy |
49
According to text book, the insect is (i) ______ as most versatile and (ii)
______ in the world. Yet it could not fly high and scientists do discover other
insects who have similar appearance and behavior.
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(A) touted |
(D) maneuvered |
50 From
having been a/an (i) ______ subject before 1970s, neuroscience has grown into
the (ii) ______ for scientists all over the world. It has been extensively
researched from the (iii) ______ activities which is common in most of the
living creatures to the advanced activities such as how
memory works.
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(A) venerated |
(D)
controversial topic |
(G)
sophisticated |
51 For
children, being honest is a/an (i) _____ skill; however, the ability to lie is
a more (ii) _____ skills. A child who is going to lie must recognize the truth,
intellectually conceive of an alternate reality, and be able to convincingly
sell that new reality to someone else. Therefore, lying demands both advanced
cognitive development and social skills that honesty simply doesn’t require.
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(A) conscious |
(D) advanced |
52 Some
artists immodestly idealize or exaggerate the significance of their work, yet
others, _____ to exalt the role of the artist, reject a transcendent view of
art.
A. appearing
B. disdaining
C. seeking
D. failing
E. tending
53
Calculus, though still indispensable to science and technology, is no longer
_____; it has an equal partner called discrete mathematics.
A. preeminent
B. pertinent
C. beneficial
D. essential
E. pragmatic
54 It is
often argued that psychoanalysis, which was ______ at the stage of eighteenth
century, provided the main filter by which death could be looked at, now
largely replaced by medicine, which provides both a mindset and practical
measures by which death may be cheated, and in terminal illness, approached,
formulating a process called medicalization.
(A) predominant
(B) pompous
(C) precarious
(D) elegant
(E) mundane
55 The
new drug was useful, but unfortunately its effect was largely (i) ______ rather
than (ii) ______.
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(A) placatory |
(D) immediate |
56 The
activists’ energetic work in the service of both woman suffrage and the
temperance movement in the late nineteenth century (i) ______ the assertion
that the two movements were (ii) ______.
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(A) undermines |
(D) diffuse |
57 Even though
the government is not totally ______ the positive review about the charter, the
mayor nevertheless decides to veto the laws.
(A) garrulous about
(B) enthusiastic about
(C) sanguine about
(D) approbatory to
(E) unsympathetic with
58
Political advertising may well be the most (i) ______ kind of advertising:
political candidates are actually quite (ii) ______, yet their campaign
advertisement often hide important differences behind smoke screens of smiles
and empty slogans.
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(A) polemical |
(D)
interchangeable |
59
Although Prime Minister’s long-termed (i) ______ political power (ii) ______
against his recent stated willingness to devolve power to local government, it
is not (iii) ______ doing it.
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(A) centralizing |
(D) raised
doubts |
(G) preclude |
60 To the
untutored eye the tightly forested Ardennes hills around Sedan look quite (i)
______, (ii) ______ place through which to advance a modern army; even with
today’s more numerous and better roads and bridges, the woods and the river
Meuse form a significant (iii) ______.
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(A) impenetrable |
(D) a makeshift |
(G) resource |
Answers:
1 – 10: A D E B F B C F I B F B F G
A F E
11 – 20: D C A D E G A E C D H D B F
I C E B D
21 – 30: A C F G C D I B B C F A
F G A D A C
31 – 40: B A E C E B D B A E C D I A
D B B D
41 – 50: A D D A D B C E B E B D G B
D I A E B F I
51 – 60: B D B A A B E A E E C E A D
G A E H
40 Sentence Equivalence questions
collected from real GRE exams
1
Although the parents do not think highly of the educational system as a whole,
they fail to treat teachers with ______ equally.
[A] consideration
[B] veneration
[C] lucubration
[D] opprobrium
[E] reverence
[F] disdain
2 It is
surprising to see such a child that is at his sixteenth manifest a great
measure of ______, for he delivers too cogent, brilliant a speech among adults.
[A] maturity
[B] precociousness
[C] convolution
[D] nefariousness
[E] naïveté
[F] ingenuousness
3. My
grandmother is a ______ person; she say that the house when she lived as a
child was always haunted.
[A] clamorous
[B] invidious
[C] numinous
[D] empirical
[E] sonorous
[F] occult
4 Despite
the good news, people are surprised that he found the news ______.
[A] alarm
[B] hostility
[C] dismay
[D] interesting
[E] confusing
[F] exciting
5
Philosophy is a/an ______ study.
[A] challenging
[B] exacting
[C] esoteric
[D] convoluted
[E] boring
[F] scientific
6 The
______ parts of the book threaten to disappear beneath repetitive and familiar
depictions of the city as a busy world.
[A] innovative
[B] original
[C] inspiring
[D] challenging
[E] demanding
[F] complex
7 A
demagogue should never exude _____ near the surface in a campaign, but this
politician gives enthusiastic ovation when his opponent triumphs in a
landslide.
[A] hauteur
[B] arrogance
[C] ectasy
[D] euphoria
[E] deprecation
[F] denigration
8 The
apparent flaws in the sculptor’s work didn’t ______ the respect critics gave
him.
[A] undermine
[B] preclude
[C] prevent
[D] create
[E] deserve
[F] increase
9 The
composition of a poem is neither intellectually nor _____, it reflects the
setting of the society and the background of the age.
[A] emotional
[B] intuitive
[C] solitary
[D] private
[E] inspiring
[F] simple
10
Advertising, formerly called the last resort to create or distribute music, has
transformed itself to ______ of music that would otherwise be unheard.
[A] a camouflage
[B] a derivative
[C] a champion
[D] an impediment/ foe
[E] an advocate
[F] an impetus
11 The
movie was very quiet, the music ______ and ______, drawing attention to the
aural nuance as it does to visual details.
[A] creatively
[B] liberally
[C] sparingly
[D] judiciously
[E] negatively
[F] generously
12
Although she is usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with
other findings, in this particular experiment she let a number of _____ result
slip by.
[A] anomalous
[B] redundant
[C] incongruous
[D] salient
[E] divergent
[F] verifiable
13 A
record company recently started to sell ______ of repackaged old Cds; this
seems to tell us it’s not releasing good records any more.
[A] dearth
[B] glut
[C] deficiency
[D] surfeit
[E] little
[F] some
14 Some
British music critics are not sure about how to tell the difference between
authentic African music and the ______, but they are sure there’s a
distinction.
[A] derivative
[B] spurious
[C] specious
[D] real
[E] rest
[F] classics
15 Even
the man was reserved in his speech, he thoroughly understood his mother, which
made him far from ______ as people usually thought.
[A] comprehensive
[B] ingenuous
[C] sophisticated
[D] foolish
[E] simple
[F] sententious
16 It is
perplexing that a man so prominent in the public eye, so highly praised and
imitated, could exude a persona of ______ and reticence.
[A] decorum
[B] bravado
[C] diffidence
[D] dogmatism
[E] resignation
[F] indifference
17 Most
people who read Ted’s correspondence are surprised that there is more stuff of
professional than personal, but the distinction is ______: every letter reveals
stamps of his personality.
[A] unique
[B] clear-cut
[C] unanimous
[D] significant
[E] artificial
[F] non-existent
18 My
grandmother is a ______ person; she say that the house when she lived as a
child was always haunted.
[A] clamorous
[B] invidious
[C] numinous
[D] empirical
[E] sonorous
[F] occult
19 There
must be someone who was not ______. Since before the performance, the plot has
been widespread.
[A] prudent
[B] circumspect
[C] tedious
[D] reluctant
[E] pretentious
[F] intelligent
20 A
writer in a development countries needs to have ______ in order to be success.
Due to limited choices of publishing platform and poor infrastructure, the only
viable option is publishing in newspaper
[A] prescience
[B] resolve
[C] foresightedness
[D] determination
[E] energy
[F] intelligence
21 The
lady’s role in public is ______: she is an outstanding actress, wife of a
diplomat, and a journalist.
[A] protean
[B] versatile
[C] pedestrian
[D] consistent
[E] complex
[F] respected
22 Mark
Messina’s book The Simple Soybean and Your Health exudes recognition much less
unrestrained in the description of the soy’s medical efficiency than its
versatility, but the author’ s cautions arrest soy to be a ______.
[A] cure-all
[B] solitude
[C] efficacy
[D] effectuality
[E] panacea
[F] placebo
23 People
from one community always take each other as ______ since they automatically
classify the others as their family line.
[A] acquaintance
[B] consort
[C] neighborhood
[D] kinfolks
[E] relative
[F] patron
24 Although
an author repeats that he is a ______ uncle in his book, he makes a persuasive
case to prove the safety of mutating genes to create new foods in his book.
[A] reticent
[B] verbose
[C] garrulous
[D] reserved
[E] conservative
[F] shy
25 Her
apparent ______ her background and ancestry seems unconceivable in an age when
people tend to think of themselves as exhaustion.
[A] rejection to
[B] duplicity to
[C] unfamiliarity with
[D] dishonesty with
[E] ignorance of
[F] understanding of
26 The
ship crashed into an iceberg because it was ______ to getting close to the
iceberg.
[A] negligible
[B] gradual
[C] imperceptible
[D] insignificant
[E] significant
[F] trivial
27
Scientist worries if the connection between global warming and the rising of
sea level continues, then this simultaneity ______ bigger changes in the
underlying dynamics of our climate.
[A] obscures
[B] forestalls
[C] presages
[D] averts
[E] exacerbates
[F] portends
28 The
spacecraft’s considerable heft made an unusual ______ way for a meander through
the solar system, under the influence of gravitational of three large bodies.
[A] indirect
[B] truncated
[C] shortened
[D] circuitous
[E] direct
[F] traditional
29
Although she usually is the first to spot data that were inconsistent with
other findings, in this particular experiment she let a number of ______
results slip by.
[A] inaccurate/ anomalous
[B] redundant
[C] incongruous
[D] salient
[E] divergent
[F] verifiable
30
Although the progress of chemistry is not the greatest, it ______ the dullness
that most progress of science is associated with.
[A] belies
[B] belittles
[C] conceals
[D] contradicts
[E] leads to
[F] affirms
31 It’s
dangerous for any researcher to make a definite conclusion because their
observation is based on data that is ______.
[A] meager
[B] uncertain
[C] paltry
[D] scientific
[E] new
[F] inspiring
32 There
are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been ______ to
the extent that they no longer interest ecologists.
[A] exhausted
[B] fully understood
[C] published
[D] taught
[E] communicated
[F] examined
33 Tigers
have idiosyncratic features which include a wide arrange of features that it’ s
hard to ______ them.
[A] pigeonhole
[B] understand
[C] analyze
[D] categorize
[E] make sense of
[F] investigate
34
Deserts are ______ in the large distances, but they give a variety of
micro-climate.
[A] homogeneous
[B] expandable
[C] unvaried
[D] diverse
[E] dry
[F] mysterious
35 Not
only it is threaten-life diseases ______; even if they have been detected
earlier, there’s still no medicine treatment for it.
[A] overlooked
[B] misguided
[C] missed
[D] detected
[E] diagnose
[F] misunderstood
36 A
demagogue should never exude ______ near the surface in a campaign, but this
politician gives enthusiastic ovation when his opponent triumphs in a
landslide.
[A] hauteur
[B] arrogance
[C] ecstasy
[D] euphoria
[E] deprecation
[F] denigration
37 The
mid-20th century is sometimes remembered as an era of cozy political ______,
but in fact the corridors of power echoed then with starkly disparate voices.
[A] arcade
[B] accord
[C] tranquility
[D] chaos
[E] variant
[F] consensus
38
Economical growth has been identified as a ______ for poor countries to
eradicate poverty, but this prescription also triggers great environmental
concerns.
[A] panacea
[B] refuge
[C] remedy
[D] heaven
[E] culprit
[F] recipe
39
Economical growth has been identified as a _____ for poor countries to
eradicate poverty, but this prescription also triggers great environmental
concerns.
[A] panacea
[B] refuge
[C] remedy
[D] heaven
[E] culprit
[F] recipe
40 In the
mid-twentieth century, politics were thought to be ______; however, corridors
of the politics contain strikingly disparate voices.
[A] consensus
[B] accord
[C] diverse
[D] misunderstood
[E] democratic
[F] eccentric
Answers:
1 – 10: D F A B C F A C C D A B C D B C A C C
E
11 – 20: B F C E B D B C B E C E B C C F A B B
D
21 – 30: A B A E D E A D C E B C C F A D C E A
D
31 – 40: A C A B A D A C A C C D B F C F C F A
B
30 GRE math questions collected from
real GRE exams:
1. There are S segments
in a bookshelf and each segment contains N books.N is
multiple of both S and S−1 . If one
segment cannot be used anymore and the books from this segment will be evenly
distributed to the rest segments, how many books does each segment have now?
2. There are 30 pens in 5 different colors; 6 pens for
each color. If 30 pens are
randomly mixed in a bucket, how many pens one should take out so that there are
at least 2 pens for
each color?
3. The ratio of number of men to the whole class is 4 to 9 and there
are 80men. How
many women are in the class?
4. The distance between (−1,5)
and (k,−1) is 10 . What is
the value of k ?
5. The median age of 51 people is 25 and X is the
average age of these 51people. Compare X to 18 :
(A) X>18
(B) X<18
(C) X=18
(D) Insufficient information
6. A computer sequence program works like this: the probably of X coming up after X is 0.3 and the probability of Y coming up
after Y is 0.4 . If the 5th symbol
coming up in this process is X , what is
the probability of Xcoming up as the 7 th
symbol?
7. There are 5 set of
numbers:
P:0.91.01.01.1
Q:0.80.80.80.8
R:0.80.81.01.0
S:0.90.91.11.1
T:0.80.90.91.0
From set Q,R,S,T which set
has a standard deviation that is larger than P’s standard deviation?
(A) Q
(B) QandR
(C) RandS
(D) SandT
(E) Set QandRandS
8. A patio will be expanded during a new construction project. The
current dimension is 15×12 meter.
The new construction project could expand one of the side but only that side.
If the newly expanded area is 60 meter
sqaure, what’s the minimum number of fences used given that each fence is 1 meter long?
9. Below is a 10 by 10 table. Pick one zero out of all the zeros, what’s the probability
that there is an odd number of zero in both the row and column containing the
selected zero?
0111111111
0011111111
0001111111
0000111111
0000011111
0000001111
0000000111
0000000011
0000000001
0000000000
10. A crown has 3 types of
stones: diamond, ruby and emerald. The ratio between diamond and ruby is 5:6 . The ratio between ruby and emerald is8:3 . What’s
the minimum number of stones on this crown?
(A) 16
(B) 22
(C) 40
(D) 53
(E) 67
11. John deposited $108,000 into his
bank account 1 year ago,
and today he has earned $810 in simple
interest. What is the monthly simple interest rate?
12. Who has more money two years later?
A puts $2000 in an
investment that pays monthly compound interest at an annual rate of 6 %
B puts $2000 in an
investment that pays compound interest every 6 months at
an annual rate of 6 %
13. There are two squares, and the length of the diagonal line is 10 and 20respectively. What’s the ratio of the areas of the two squares?
14. Referring to the trapezoid below: PQ & RS are
parallel. Add a point Abetween PS and a
point B between QR that make AB & PQ & RS all parallel to each other. In addition, trapezoid PQBA and ABRS will have
equal circumferences. What is the length AS+BR ?
15. The symbol $ is
defined such x$y=x(x+y) . If b$a=0 , what’s the relationship between b and zero?
16. On a line, PQ=14 and PT=8 , compare TQ to 20
17. QR & BC are parallel and QR<BC . Compare
the area of ABC to PQR
18. Kelly collects Canadian and Australian coins. She has 6 Canadian coins and her Australian coin collection exceeds 3/8 of her entire coin collection. How many coins Kelly has in total?
19. The highest temperatures in three consecutive days are x,50 and zdegree.
The average of x,50 and z is 50 and the largest temperature difference between any two days in the
past 3 days is 20 . What’s
the highest temperature in the three days?
20. P(x)=k and k is the number of prime factors in x . P(12)/P(9)= ?
21. The average of p,q,r,s is 50 . Compare the quantity A and B
A: average of p+10,q,r,s
B: average of p,q,r,s,10
22. The circle below is divided into 8 sections.
The shaded area is 8π . What’s the circumference of the shaded sector?
23. A jacket is sold at $54 at Martin
Outlet, and the price at department store is 50 % higher
than the outlet price. In addition, the price of the jacket at department store
is 25 % higher than the price of a local retail stores. What’s the price
of the jacket at a local retail store?
24. The length of each side of an octagon is 1 . What is the area of the triangles inside?
25. What is the least possible value of 3x+3∗3−x
26. How many ways can 16 different
gifts be divided among 4 children
such that each child receive exactly 4 gifts?
27. Side length of a triangle = 3,4,t . Given that all three angles are <=90degree, what’s the range of t ?
28. Using
three straight lines to cut a rectangle, at most how many segments can be
resulted from the the three lines?
29. When n is an
integer >0 , which
of the following is larger?
13n or 3∗110n
30. The function a(n) is defined as a(n)=a(n−1)a(n−2) . Given a1=2 and a2=5
What is the value of a135 ?
Answers:
Question 1: n/(s−1)+n=ns/(s−1)
Question 2:
26
Question 3:
100
Question 4:
K=7
Question 5: (D) Insufficient information
Question 6:
0.3∗0.3+0.7∗0.6=0.51
Question 7: (C) R & S
Question 8:
22
This is comparing 5∗2+12 & 4∗2+15 . 22
is the smaller one.
Question 9:
2/11
Question 10: (D) 53
Question 11:
0.0625 . Annual simple interest
= 810/108000=0.0075 Monthly simple interest = 0.0075/12=0.000625=0.0625 %
Question 12:
A has more money two years
later.
Question 13:
1
to 4
Question 14:
2 . Say the length of AB is y , and the value asked in the question is x
Question 15: There are two solutions for b:b=0 or b=−a , so the answer is cannot be determined.
Question 16: Cannot be determined
Question 17: Triangle ABC is larger
Question 18:
10 . Say Kelly has A Australian coins and C Canadian coins
Question 19:
60
degree
Question 20:
2 . 12=3∗2∗2 & 9=3∗3 . P(12)/P(9)=2/1=2
Question 21:
A
Question 22:
16+2π . Figure out the
radius first.
Question 23:
$64.8 . Say the jacket price at local retail
store is y .
Question 24:
(2–√+1)/4
Question 25:
4
Question 26:
16 !/ 4!4
Question 27:
2–√<t<5
Question 28:
7
Question 29:
13n
Question 30:
2.5.a(n−1)=a(n−2)/a(n−3)=>an=1/a(n−3)=>an=a(n−6)=>6 per cycle. The remainder
of 135/6 is 3 . As a result, a(135)=a(3)=a(2)/a(1)=2.5
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