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GRE 最新练习题十(99.4)
SECTION 1
Time-30minutes
38 Questions
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The median salary for professional group A is (D) 6
$40,610. The median salary for professional group B (E) 9
is $40,810.
15. The median salary for $40,710
groups A and B 18. Which of the following sets of number is has the
combined greatest standard deviation?
(A) 2, 3, 4
16. The water level in a tank is lowered by 6 inches, then
(B) 2.5, 3, 3.5
1 (C) 1, 1.25, 1.5
raised by 8 inches, and then lowered by 4 inches.
2 (D) –2, 0, 2
If the water level was x inches before the changes in
(E) 20, 21, 21.5
level, which of the following represents the water
level, in inches, after the changes? 19. If x, y, and z represent consecutive integers, and x <y
1 <z, which of the following equals y?
(A) x 1
2 Ⅰ. x + 1
(B) x 1
1 xz
Ⅱ.
2 2
(C) x6
1 x yz
Ⅲ.
2 3
1 (A) Ⅰ only
(D) x6
2 (B) Ⅰ and Ⅱ only
1 (C) Ⅰ and Ⅲ only
(E) x 18
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21. The two corporate sectors that increased their 24. From 1988 to 1991, which corporate sector
support for the arts from 1988 to 1991 made a total decreased its support for the arts by the greatest
contribution in 1991 of approximately how many dollar amount?
million dollars?
(A) Services
(A) 112
(B) Manufacturing
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(E) 315
25. Of the retail sector’s 1991 contribution to the arts,
an
(A) One
contribute to public television that year than to
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(B) Two
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symphony orchestras?
(C) three
(D) Four (A) 5.2
(E) Five (B) 6.3
(C) 10.4
23. Approximately how many million dollars more did (D) 13.0
the wholesale sector contribute to the arts in 1988 (E) 19.5
than in 1991?
26. If x = a5 and y = a6, a 0, which of the following is
(A) 10.4
equivalent to a13?
(B) 12.6
(C) 14.0 (A) xy
(D) 16.5 (B) x2y
(E) 19.2
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base hourly rate. Workers at company X are paid 1.5
x3
(C) times the base hourly rate for each hour worked per
y
week in excess of the first 37, while workers at
Company Y are paid 1.5 times the base hourly rate
x4
(D) for each hour worked per week in excess of the first
y
40. In a given week, how many hours must a
Company X worker work in order to receive the
y3
(E) same pay as a company Y worker who works 46
x
hours?
(A) 46
27. The probabilities that each of two independent
(B) 45
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experiments will have a successful outcome are (C) 44
15
(D) 43
2
and , respectively. What is the probability that (E) 42
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both experiments will have successful outcomes?
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(A) 16%
(B) 20%
(C) 36%
(D) 40%
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SECTION 2 is as -------- as her opponent's attempt to disguise
Time- 30 Minutes his intention to run against her.
38 Questions (A) biased
(B) unsuccessful
1. As businesses become aware that their advertising (C) inadvertent
must ------ the everyday concerns of consumers, their (D) indecisive
commercials will be characterized by a greater degree (E) remote
of ------.
6. MacCrory’s conversation was --------: she could
(A) allay...pessimism
never tell a story, chiefly because she always
(B) address...realism
forgot it, and she was never guilty of a witticism,
(C) evade....verisimilitude
unless by accident.
(D) engage…fancy
(A) scintillating
(E) change...sincerity
(B) unambiguous
(C) perspicuous
2. Because the lawyer's methods were found to (D) stultifying
be ------, the disciplinary committee ------- his (E) facetious
privileges.
(A) unimpeachable...suspended 7. Despite its many --------, the whole-language
(B) ingenious...withdrew philosophy of teaching reading continues to
(C) questionable...expanded gain -------- among educators.
(D) unscrupulous...revoked (A) detractors...notoriety
(E) reprehensible...augmented (B) adherents...prevalence
(C) critics…currency
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(C) obsequious...deference
(D) truculent... independence (D) questionnaire : explanation
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11. AMENITY : COMFORTABLE allowing snow in the mountains and the northern
(A) tact : circumspect Line latitudes to accumulate from one season to the next
(B) nuisance : aggravated (5) instead of melting away. Each time, the enormous ice
(C) honorarium :grateful sheets resulting from this continual buildup lasted tens
(D) favorite : envious of thousands of years until the end of each particular
(E) lounge : patient glacial cycle brought a warmer climate. Scientists
speculated that these glacial cycles were ultimately
12. PAIN : ANALGESIC:: (10) driven by astronomical factors: slow, cyclic changes
(A) energy : revitalization in the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit and in the tilt
(B) interest : stimulation and orientation of its spin axis. But up until around
(C) symptom : palliative 30 years ago, the lack of an independent record of ice-
(D) despair : anxiety age timing made the hypothesis untestable.
(E) reward : incentive (15) Then in the early 1950’s Emiliani produced the
first complete record of the waxings and wanings
13. VOICE:SHOUT:: of past glaciations. It came from a seemingly odd
(A) ear : overhear place. the seafloor. Single-cell marine organisms
(B) eve : see called "foraminifera" house themselves in shells made
(C) hand : clutch (20) from calcium carbonate. When the foraminifera die.
(D) nerve : feel sink to the bottom, and become part of seafloor sedi-
(E) nose : inhale ments, the carbonate of their shells preserves certain
characteristics of the seawater they inhabited. In
14. PONTIFICATE: SPEAK:: particular, the ratio of a heavy, isotope of oxygen
(A) strut : walk (25) (oxygen-18) to ordinary oxygen (oxygen- 16) in the
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(C) patronize : frequent water molecules.
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(D) calligrapher : handwriting (35) Hence, as water vapor evaporated from warm oceans
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(E) aviator : aircraft moves away from its source. its oxygen -18 returns
more quickly to the oceans than does its oxygen-16.
16. INDIGENT : WEALTH:: What falls as snow on distant ice sheets and mountain
(A) presumptuous : independence glaciers is relatively depleted of oxygen -18. As the
(B) imperturbable : determination (40) oxygen-18-poor ice builds up the oceans become
(C) inevitable : inescapability relatively enriched in the Isotope. The larger the ice
(D) indigestible : sustenance sheets grow, the higher the proportion of oxygen-18
(E) redundant : indispensability becomes in seawater- and hence in the sediments.
Analyzing cores drilled from seafloor sediments,
This passage is based on an article published in 1990. (45) Emiliani found that the isotopic ratio rose and fell in
rough accord with the Earth’s astronomical cycles.
Eight times within the pat million years, some- Since that pioneering observation, oxygen-isotope
thing in the Earth’s climatic equation has changed. measurements have been made on hundreds of cores
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A chronology for the combined record enables scien- is slightly lower than that of seawater poor in
(50) tists to show that the record contains the very same oxygen- 18
periodicities as the orbital processes. Over the past
800,000 years, the global ice volume has peaked 19. According to the passage. the large ice sheets
every 100,000 years, matching the period of the typical of glacial cycles are most directly
orbital eccentricity variation. In addition, “wrinkles” caused by
(55) superposed on each cycle –small decreases or surges (A) changes in the average temperatures in the
in ice volume – have come at intervals of roughly tropics and over open oceans
23,000 and 41,000 years, in keeping with the pre- (B) prolonged increases in the rate at which water
cession and tilt frequencies of the Earth’s spin axis. evaporates from the oceans
(C) extreme seasonal variations in temperature in
17. Which of the following best expresses the main idea northern latitudes and in mountainous areas
of the passage? (D) steadily increasing precipitation rates in
(A) Marine sediments have allowed scientists to northern latitudes and in mountainous areas
amass evidence tending to confirm that (E) the continual failure of snow to melt completely
astronomical cycles drive the Earth’s glacial during the warmer seasons in northern latitudes
cycles. and in mountainous areas
(B) the ratio between two different isotopes of
20. It can be inferred from the passage that which of the
oxygen in seawater correlates closely with the
following is true of the water locked in glaciers and
size of the Earth’s ice sheets.
ice sheets today?
(C) Surprisingly, single-cell marine organisms
provide a record of the Earth’s ice ages. (A) It is richer in oxygen- 18 than frozen water was
(D) The Earth’s astronomical cycles have recently during past glacial periods.
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or polar ice packs. refers to the means by which a social group provides
(E) Increases in global temperature do not increase for its material needs. Turner’s differentiating ritual
the amount of water that evaporates from the from technology helps us recognize that festivals and
oceans. (10) celebrations may have little purpose other than play,
but it obscures the practical aims, such as making
22. The passage suggests that the scientists who first crops grow or healing patients, of other rituals. Further,
constructed a coherent. continuous picture of past Turner’s definition implies a necessary relationship
variations in marine-sediment isotope ratios did between ritual and mystical beliefs. However, not all
which of the following? (15) rituals are religious; some religions have no reference
(A) Relied primarily on the data obtained from the to mystical beings; and individuals may be required
analysis of Emiliani’s core samples. only to participate in, not necessarily believe in, a
(B) Combined data derived from the analysis of ritual. Turner's assumption that ritual behavior follows
many different core samples. belief thus limits the usefulness of his definition in
(C) Matched the data obtained by geologists with (20) studying ritual across cultures.
that provided by astronomers.
(D) Evaluated the isotope-ratio data obtained in 24. According to the passage, which of the following
several areas in order to eliminate all but the does Turner exclude from his conception of ritual?
most reliable data. (A) Behavior based on beliefs
(E) Compared data obtained from core samples in (B) Behavior based on formal rules
many different marine environments with data (C) Celebrations whose purpose is play
samples derived from polar ice caps. (D) Routines directed toward practical ends
(E) Festivals honoring supernatural beings
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line 8 considered their reconstruction of past 25. The passage suggests that an assumption underlying
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27. Which of the following best describes the (D) irreducible
organization of the passage? (E) ambiguous
(C) deter
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(B) organize
31. VALEDICTION: (C) elaborate
(A) greeting (D) deliberate
(B) promise (E) produce
(C) accusation
38. MENDACIOUS:
(D) denigration
(E) aphorism (A) assured
(B) honest
32. FACTORABLE (C) intelligent
(A) absorbent (D) fortunate
(B) magnifiabl (E) gracious
(C) simulated
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SECTION 3 (C) The argument assumes that the teaching of ballet
Time - 30 minutes in the United States is superior to the teaching of
25 Questions ballet in Europe
(D) Other possible reasons for the improved mental
1. The painter Peter Brandon never dated his works, and attitudes of United States dancers are not
their chronology is only now beginning to take shape examined.
in the critical literature. A recent dating of a Brandon (E) The argument assumes that dancers born and
self-portrait to 1930 is surely wrong. Brandon was 63 trained in Europe are typically more talented than
years old in 1930, yet the painting shows a young, dancers born and trained in the United States.
dark-haired man-obviously Brandon, but clearly not a
man of 63. Questions 3-8
Which of the following, if justifiably assumed, allows A volunteer who sends packages to hospital patients is
the conclusion to be properly drawn? preparing three packages containing exactly five items
(A) There is no securely dated self-portrait of each from a supply of eighteen available items-four
Brandon that he painted when he was games, six jigsaw puzzles, and eight novels. The
significantly younger than 63. packages must conform to the following.
(B) In refraining from dating his works, Brandon conditions:
intended to steer critical discussion of them away The three packages together contain all of the novels.
from considerations of chronology. Each package contains at least one jigsaw puzzle. No
(C) Until recently, there was very little critical package contains more games than novels.
literature on the works of Brandon.
3. Which of the following can be a complete and
(D) Brandon at age 63 would not have portrayed
accurate list of the contents of one of the packages?
himself in a painting as he had looked when he
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2. Dance critic from Europe: The improved quality of (E) Three games, one jigsaw puzzle, one novel
ballet in the United States is the result of more
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jigsaw puzzles contains exactly two jigsaw small thefts.
puzzles. Which of the following, if true, most seriously
(D) Each of the two packages that do not contain challenges the mayor's argument?
three jigsaw puzzles contains exactly one game.
(A) When city police are perceived as unresponsive,
(E) Each of the two packages that do not contain three
victims of theft are less likely to report thefts to
jigsaw puzzles contains exactly three novels.
the police.
(B) The mayor's critics generally agree that police
6. If the first two packages contain exactly two jigsaw
statistics concerning crime reports provide the
puzzles each, which of the following can be a
most reliable available data on crime rates.
complete and accurate list of the contents of the third
(C) In other cities where police departments have
package?
been similarly reorganized, the numbers of
(A) One game, four novels reported thefts have generally risen following
(B) Two games, three novels reorganization.
(C) Two jigsaw puzzles, three novels (D) The mayor's reorganization of the police
(D) One game, three jigsaw puzzles, one novel department failed to save as much money as it
(E) Two games, two jigsaw puzzles, one novel was intended to save.
(E) During the four years immediately preceding the
7. If each of the packages contains at least one game,
reorganization, reports of all types of theft had
then it must be true that one of the package contains
been rising steadily in comparison to reports of
exactly
other crimes.
(A) two games
(B) two jigsaw puzzles 10. It takes a particular talent to be a successful business
(C) one novel manager. Business courses can help people to solve
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(D) There are exactly four games among the items in (B) People who are already skilled at solving
the three packages together. management problems are unlikely to benefit
(E) There are exactly four jigsaw puzzles among the from business courses.
items in the three packages together. (C) Most ideas that are used successfully in solving
management problems are those acquired in
9.Mayor Four years ago when we reorganized the city business courses.
police department in order to save money, critics (D) People who lack managerial talent are more
claimed that the reorganization would make the police likely to take business courses than are people
less responsive to citizens and would thus lead to who have managerial talent.
more crime. The police have compiled theft statistics (E) Those people who have never taken business
from the years following the reorganization that show courses are unable to solve management
that the critics were wrong. There was an overall problems when such problems arise.
decrease in reports of thefts of all kinds, including
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11. When a driver is suspected of having had too much departments in both parts of the store on a single
to drink, testing the driver's ability to walk a straight shopping trip.
line gives a more reliable indication of fitness to (D) Besides the skylight, there are several significant
drive than does testing the driver's blood-alcohol architectural differences between the two parts
level. of the store.
Which of the following, if true, best supports the (E) The departments in the part of the store under
claim made in the statement above? the skylight are the departments that generally
have the highest sales in other stores in the
(A) Not all observers will agree whether or not an
Savefast chain.
individual has succeeded in walking a straight
line.
Questions 13-17
(B) Because of genetic differences and variations in
A humanities course must discuss six out of eight
acquired tolerance to alcohol, some individuals
topics-faith, knowledge, love, madness, revolution,
suffer more serious motor impairment from a
skepticism, technology, and utopia-one at a time, each
given high blood-alcohol level than do others.
for one of six periods numbered consecutively from
(C) Tests designed to measure blood-alcohol levels
1through 6. The ordering of topics must meet these
are accurate, inexpensive, and easy to
conditions:
administer.
If faith is not discussed, utopia must be discussed
(D) More than half the drivers involved in fatal
last.
accidents have blood-alcohol levels that exceed
If technology is discussed, it must be discussed
the legal limit, whereas in less-serious accidents
immediately before or else immediately after love.
the proportion of legally intoxicated drivers is
If faith is discussed, it must be discussed immediately
lower.
before skepticism and immediately after madness.
(E) Some individuals with high blood-alcohol levels
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light. The rest of the store uses only artificial light. technology
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15. If neither faith nor madness is discussed and if (B) Jade, opal, sapphire, turquoise, garnet. ruby.
revolution is discussed fourth, then skepticism must zircon, malachite
be discussed (C) Malachite, turquoise, opal. jade. ruby, zircon,
garnet, sapphire
(A) first
(D) Turquoise, opal, jade, sapphire, garnet, zircon,
(B) second
ruby, malachite
(C) third
(E) Turquoise, sapphire, opal, jade, gamet, zircon,
(D) fourth
ruby, malachite
(E) fifth
(E) 5
(E) skepticism
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adjacent positions, numbered consecutively 1 through 8 (C) The opal is set in position 3.
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around the bracelet, in which to set the stones, with (D) The sapphire is set in position 6.
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position 8 adjacent to position 1. The setting of the (E) The zircon is set in position 1.
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sand can no longer creep inland as storms erode it at that is currently endangered is prohibitively
the water's edge. expensive, the endangered species whose value to
If the information is correct, which of the following humanity is the greatest should be accorded the
conclusions is most strongly supported on the basis highest priority for preservation.
of it? Karen: Such a policy would he unsound because it is
impossible to predict the future value of a species,
(A) Since the ferocity of ocean storms is increasing,
nor is it always possible to assess the present value
increasingly high seawalls must be built between
of species whose contributions to humanity, though
beaches and beachfront property.
significant, are indirect.
(B) Even when beaches are heavily used by people,
Which of the following is the main point of Karen's
they are necessary to the survival of the many
reply to David?
wild species that use them.
(C) Seawalls constructed to protect beachfront (A) Although it would be desirable to preserve all
buildings will not themselves eventually be endangered species, doing so is not
damaged by storms and will not require, if they economically feasible.
are to protect the buildings, expensive repair or (B) Even if the value to humanity of a given species
replacement. is known, that value should not be a factor in
(D) The conservation of beaches for future any decision on whether to expend effort to
generations should be the overriding goal of preserve that species.
shore management at ocean coasts. (C) Species whose contributions to humanity are
(E) Trying to protect beachfront buildings by direct should have a higher priority for
constructing seawalls is counterproductive in the preservation efforts than species whose
long run for an oceanfront community wishing contributions to humanity are only indirect.
to maintain itself as a beach resort. (D)Since the methods for deciding which species
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SECTION 4 10. The positive difference 36
Time – 30 minutes between Carol’s age, in
30 Questions years, and her father’s
age, in years
x=y=z
3 0 < p <1
1. x xyz
11. p –p4 6
p3 – p5
x<0
2
2. 3x 3x3
3 2 x 2 [ x(1 2 x)] 5
12. x -8
3. x y
24 101
4. 2
23 100 A solid cubical block of wood has dimensions as
shown in the figure, and the block is to be cut in
The points P(2,0), Q(0,2), R(4,2) and S(2,4) are in the half as indicated by the shaded region.
rectangular coordinate system. 14. The total surface area 36 square feet
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(C) 24
9. (109)(87-14) (109)(87)-(109)(14) (D) 31
Carol’s age, in years, can be expressed by reversing (E) 34
the digits in her father’s age, in years. The sum of
the digits in each age is 10.
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17. If the cube of n is 180 greater than the square of n, (A) 1%
then n = (B) 25
(C) 3%
(A) 10
(D) 4%
(B) 9
(E) 5%
(C) 8
(D) 7
(E) 6
(D) D
19. What percent of the integers between 200 and 999, (E) E
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Humanities 33%
Social Sciences 30%
Physical Sciences 24%
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(B) 1,192
21. the ratio of the number of male freshmen to the (C) 1,220
number of female sophomores is approximately (D) 1,232
(A) 2 to 1 (E) 1,250
(B) 3 to 1
26. If the ratio of the number of English books to the
(C) 3 to 2
number of all other books on a bookshelf is 4 to 1,
(D) 4 to 1
what percent of the books on the bookshelf are
(E) 5 to 3
English books?
22. How many of the enrolled students are not majoring (A) 20%
in humanities, social sciences, or physical sciences? (B) 25%
(A) 87 (C) 50%
(B) 122 (D) 75%
(C) 182 (E) 80%
(D) 230
(E) 322 3, 7, 9, 14, x
23. Which of the following can be inferred from the 27. The numbers in the list above are ordered from least
tables? to greatest. If the average (arithmetic mean) is 2
greater than the median, what is the value of x?
Ⅰ.The number of males majoring in physical
sciences is greater than the number of females (A) 22
majoring in that area. (B) 20
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(A) 678 (C) 3,700
(B) 766 (D) 4,400
(C) 948 (E) 4,760
(D) 1,130
a 3
(E) 1,312 29. If , which of the following must be true?
b 2
25. If the total enrollment is 12 percent greater than it b 2
was five years ago, what was the total enrollment Ⅰ
a 3
five years ago? ab 1
Ⅱ
(A) 1,180 a 3
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(A) Ⅰ only Time-30 minutes
(B) Ⅱ only 38 Questions
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(D) Ⅰand Ⅱ 1. That she was _____ rock climbing did not diminish
(E) Ⅱand Ⅲ her _____to join her friends on a rock-climbing
expedition.
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(B) redress
(C) predict
(D) realize
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(B) pejorative
(C) revisionist
(D) acceptable
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(A) brook ... silence 11. JOKE: PUNCH LINE::
(B) acknowledge ... neglect
(A) sermon: congregation
(C) broach ... abstinence
(B) conceit: allegory
(D) fathom ... secrecy
(C) rhetoric: persuasion
(E) tolerate ... defiance
(D) conspiracy: arrest
(E) plot: denouement
6. Originally, most intellectual criticism of mass culture
was ____ in character, being based on the assumption
12. VEER: DIRECTION::
that the wider the appeal, the more ____ the product.
(A) align: connection
(A) unpredictable ... undesirable
(B) filter: contamination
(B) ironic ... popular
(C) convert: belief
(C) extreme ... outlandish
(D) deflect: motivation
(D) frivolous ... superfluous
(E) substantiate: authenticity
(E) negative ... shoddy
13. REPROBATE: MISBEHAVE::
7. Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the
com crop, the yield of the harvest was ____; (A) sycophant: fawn
consequently, the corn reserves of the country have (B) critic: rebuke
not been ____. (C) ruffian: tease
(D) cynic: brood
(A) inadequate ... replenished
(E) narcissist: covet
(B) encouraging ... depleted
(C) compromised ... salvaged 14. IMPERVIOUS: PENETRATE::
(D) abundant ... extended
(A) ineluctable: avoid
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line Such transfers require that electrically neutral clouds, 19. According to the passage, Benjamin Franklin
(5) with uniform charge distributions, become electrified contributed to the scientific study of lightning by
by separation of charges into distinct regions. The
(A) testing a theory proposed earlier, showing it to
greater this separation is, the greater the voltage. or
be false, and developing an alternative, far more
electrical potential of the cloud. Scientists still do not
successful theory of his own
now the precise distribution of charges in thunder-
(B) making an important discovery that is still
(10) clouds nor how separation adequate to support the
important for scientific investigations of
huge voltages typical of lightning bolts arises.
lightning
According to one theory, the precipitation hypothesis,
(C) introducing a hypothesis that, though recently
charge separation occurs as a result of precipitation.
shown to be false, proved to be a useful source
Larger droplets in a thundercloud precipitate down-
of insights for scientists studying lightning
(15) ward past smaller suspended droplets. Collisions
(D) developing a technique that has enabled
among droplets transfer negative charge to precip-
scientists to measure more precisely the
itating droplets, leaving the suspended droplets with
phenomena that affect the strength and location
a positive charge, thus producing a positive dipole in
of lightning bolts
which the lower region of the thundercloud is filled
(E) predicting correctly that two factors previously
(20) with negatively charged raindrops and the upper with
thought unrelated to lightning would eventually
positively charged suspended droplets.
be shown to contribute jointly to the strength
and location of lightning bolts
17. The passage is primarily concerned with discussing
which of the following?
20. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously
(A) A central issue in the explanation of how undermine the precipitation hypothesis, as it is set
lightning occurs forth in the passage?
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within the cloud than between the cloud and the
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positive dipole in the clouds where they (E) In clouds of all sizes negative charges
originate concentrate in the center of the clouds when the
(B) result in the movement of negative charges to clouds become electrically charged
the centers of the clouds where they originate
(C) result in the suspension of large, positively Before Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), few women in
charged raindrops at the tops of the clouds the history of photography had so devoted themselves
where they originate to chronicling the landscape. Other women had photo-
(D) originate in clouds that have large numbers of line graphed the land, but none can be regarded as a land-
negatively charged droplets in their upper (5) scape photographer with a sustained body of
regions work
(E) originate in clouds in which the positive and documenting the physical terrain. Anne Brigman
negative charges are not uniformly distributed often photographed woodlands and coastal areas, but
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They were generally settings for her artfully placed with a feminine perspective: she eschewed any
subjects. Dorothea Lange's landscapes were always (55) discussion of gender as it related to her work and
(10) conceived of as counterparts to her portraits of rural maintained little interest in interpretations that relied
women. on the concept of a “woman's eye.” Thus it is ironic
At the same time that Gilpin's interest in landscape that her photographic evocation of a historical
work distinguished her from most other women pho- landscape should so clearly present a distinctively
tographers, her approach to landscape photography set feminine approach to landscape photography.
(15) her apart from men photographers who, like Gilpin,
documented the western United States. Western 21. Which of the following best expresses the main idea
American landscape photography grew out of a male of the passage?
tradition, pioneered by photographers attached to (A) Gilpin's landscape photographs more accurately
government and commercial survey teams that went documented the Southwest than did the
(20) west in the 1860's and 1870's. These explorer- photographs of explorers and conservationists.
photographers documented the West that their (B) Gilpin's style of landscape photography
employers wanted to see: an exotic and majestic land substantially influenced the heroic style
shaped by awesome natural forces, unpopulated and practiced by her male counterparts.
ready for American settlement. The next generation (C) The labeling of Gilpin's style of landscape
(25) of male photographers, represented by Ansel Adams photography as feminine ignores important ties
and Eliot Porter, often worked with conservationist between it and the heroic style.
groups rather than government agencies or commer- (D) Gilpin's work exemplifies an arguably feminine
cial companies, but they nonetheless preserved the style of landscape photography that contrasts
“heroic” style and maintained the role of respectful with the style used by her male predecessors.
(30) outsider peering in with reverence at a fragile natural (E) Gilpin's style was strongly influenced by the
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jewel-like scene resisting human intrusion, but a 22. It can be inferred from the passage that the teams
an
(35) peopled landscape with a rich history and tradition of mentioned in line 19 were most interested in which
its own, an environment that shaped and molded the of the following aspects of the land in the western
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land and humans. (A) A vista of a canyon still untouched by human
culture
(B) Gilpin considered close-up photography to be
too closely associated with her predecessors. (B) A portrait of a visitor to the West against a desert
(C) Gilpin believed that all of her photographs backdrop
should include people in them. (C) A view of historic Native American dwellings
(D) Gilpin associated close-up techniques with carved into the side of a natural cliff
photography used for commercial purposes. (D) A picture of artifacts from the West being
(E) Gilpin feared that pictures of small details would transported to the eastern United States for retail
suggest an indifference to the fragility of the sale
land as a whole. (E) An abstract pattern created by the shadows of
clouds on the desert
24. The passage suggests that a photographer who
practiced the heroic style would be most likely to 27. The author of the passage mentions women writers
emphasize which of the following in a photographic in line 50 most likely in order to
series focusing on the Rio Grande ?
(A) counter a widely held criticism of her argument
(A) Indigenous people and their ancient customs (B) bolster her argument that Gilpin's style can be
relating to the river characterized as a feminine style
(B) The exploits of navigators and explorers (C) suggest that Gilpin took some of her ideas for
(C) Unpopulated, pristine parts of the river and its photographs from landscape descriptions by
surroundings women writers
(D) Existing commercial ventures that relied heavily (D) clarify the interrelationship between human
on the river culture and the land that Gilpin was attempting
(E) The dams and other monumental engineering to capture
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26. Based on the description of her works in the passage,
(B) malign
which of the following would most likely be a
(C) proscribe
subject for a photograph taken by Gilpin?
(D) send out
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(E) deliver from (A) discontinuous
(B) natural
31. DISSIPATE: (C) nascent
(A) accumulate (D) rational
(B) emerge (E) dominant
(C) overwhelm
38. CATHOLIC:
(D) adhere
(E) invigorate (A) narrow
(B) soft
32.OSTRACIZE: (C) trivial
(A) clarify (D) calm
(B) subdue (E)quick
(C) welcome
(D) renew
(E) crave
33. LOATH:
(A) clever
(B) reasonable
(C) fortunate
(D) eager
(E) confident
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(D) stint
(E) waste
36.VITUPERATIVE:
(A) complimentary
(B) demagogic
(C) hopeful
(D) admirable
(E) veracious
37.MORIBUND:
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SECTION 6 4. If R is performed in the same month as Z, which of
Time-30 Minutes the following can be the pair of experiments
25 Questions performed in October?
(A) P and X
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(B) P and Y
A scientist will perform six experiments - P, R, T, X, Y,
(C) R and Z
and z - during a three-month period, August through
(D) T and Y
October. In each of the three months, exactly two of the
(E) X and Y
experiments will be performed. Each experiment will
start on the first day of a month and be completed during 5. If T is performed in the month before Z is performed,
that month, The order in which the experiments are which of the following is a pair of experiments that
performed will also be governed by the following can be performed in the same month as each other?
restrictions:
(A) P and R
R must be performed in August or in September.
(B) P and Y
T must be performed in September or in October.
(C) R and Y
T cannot be performed in the same month in which
(D) R and Z
X is performed.
(E) X and Y
X must be performed in an earlier month than the
month in which Z is performed. 6. If P is performed in the same month as Y, which of the
following must be true?
1. Which of the following can be the schedule for the six
experiments? (A) R is performed in the same month as T.
(B) R is performed in the same month as X.
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(A) P, R T, X Y, Z
(D) X is performed in August.
(B) R, T X, Y P, Z
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follow if Roger's claim were accepted following must sit at the same table as each other?
(B) arguing that what Roger claims to be a cause of a
(A) J and T
given phenomenon is actually its effect
(B) L and R
(C) using an analogy to expose a flaw in Roger's
(C) N and K
reasoning
(D) N and T
(D) pointing out that Roger's claim is
(E) O and N
self-contradictory
(E) attempting to demonstrate that Roger uses the 11. Which of the following can sit at a table with L and
term“nearsightedness” in an ambiguous way R?
(C)There was a steady increase in the use of 13. Each of the following is a pair of people who can sit
renewable energy sources in Frieland at the same table as each other EXCEPT
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Which of the following, if true during the last three electrical appliances at home, and most
years, best reconciles the apparent discrepancy in the electrical appliances, when turned on, are
facts above? surrounded by and electromagnetic field of some
measurable level.
(A) The Parkville Department of Recreation
confiscated abandoned bicycles and sold them at
Questions 17-20
auction to any interested Parkville residents.
A library is equipped with a system of pneumatic tubes
(B) Increased automobile and bus traffic in Parkville
for sending documents from one to another of exactly
has been the leading cause of the most recent
six departments-G, H, L, M, S, and T. A tube line is a
increase in automobile accidents.
pair of tubes that connects one department with exactly
(C) Because of the local increase in the number of
one other department, with documents moving in one
people bicycling for recreation. many out -of
direction in one tube and in the opposite direction in the
-town bicyclists ride in the Parkville area.
other tube. The library's system consists of the following
(D) The Parkville Police Department enforced traffic
seven tube lines and no others.
rules for bicycle riders much more vigorously
Line 1 connects H and L.
and began requiring recreational riders to pass a
Line 2 connects H and S.
bicycle safety course.
Line 3 connects L and T.
(E) The Parkville Department of Transportation
Line 4 connects S and T.
canceled a program that required all bicycles to
Line 5 connects M and T.
be inspected and registered each year.
Line 6 connects L and M.
16. Do strong electric currents, by means of the Line 7 connects G and H.
electromagnetic fields that accompany them, cause Use of the system is subject to the following restrictions:
cancer in people who live and work nearby? Documents to be sent between departments that are
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Telephone line workers. who work near such not connected by a tube line can be transferred
currents every day, can provide a test case. They from one line to another at departments served by
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Which of the following if true, most seriously A document cannot use any tube line more than once
on its way to its destination, nor can the document
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chemical solvents high enough to cause brain used in order from the line first used to the line last
cancer. used, EXCEPT
(C) High exposure to strong electromagnetic fields
(A) line 4. line 5
is correlated with a slightly higher-than-normal
(B) line 2. line 3. line 5
incidence of childhood leukemia, which is a
(C) line 2. line 1, line 6
form of cancer.
(D) line 4. line 1, line 6
(D) Public health officials who found that a group of
(E) line 2, line 1, line 3, line5.
different illnesses in people living near a power
substation could not reliably be attributed to its
18. Which of the following is a complete and accurate
electromagnetic field were accused of covering
list of the lines any one of which could be the
up the facts.
second line used by a document sent from T to G?
(E) Telephone line workers, like most people. have
(A) Lines 1, 2, and 3
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(B) Lines 1, 2, and 4 (D) 6
(C) Lines 1, 2, and 6 (E) 7
(D) Lines 2, 3, and 4
(E) Lines 2, 3, and 6 20. A pathway from M to H that includes as many tube
lines as possible must include lines
19. If line 3 cannot be used, a document to be sent from
(A) 1 and 2
T to H that uses as few tube lines as possible must
(B) 1 and 3
use line
(C) 3 and 4
(A) 1 (D) 4 and 5
(B) 2 (E) 5 and 6
(C) 5
Questions 21-23
Eight figure skaters -four women: Fiona, Gloria, Heidi, and Jill; and four men:
Ravi, Shigeru, Toby, and Vernon-will participate in a one-day skating exhibition
consisting of four consecutively performed sets - set 1 through set 4. Each set
will be performed in exactly one pair of skaters, one man and one woman. Each
skater will performed by exactly one of the sets, subject to the following
constraints:
Ravi skates in an earlier set than Vernon does.
Fiona skates in either set 1 or set 4.
Jill does not skate with Toby.
Shigeru skates with either Fiona or Gloria.
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from set 1 through set 4?
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following must be true? (E) Jill skates with Vernon.
(A) Vernon skates in set 2.
24. Neither the Sami nor the Kephrian delegations
(B) Shigeru skates in set 4.
attended the international conference. Beforehand.
(C) Ravi skates in set 3.
the delegations of Daqua and Kephria. allies whose
(D) Jill skates in set 4.
governments had grievances against Tessia.
(E) Heidi skates in set 3.
officially announced that one or both of the two
23. If Heidi skates in set 1 and Toby skates in set 2. would stay away if the Tessian delegation attended
which of the following must be true? the conference. In response, the Sami delegation
officially announced that it would definitely attend if
(A) Fiona skates with Ravi.
both the Daquan and Kephrian delegations stayed
(B) Gloria skates with Ravi.
away.
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If the statements given are all true and all the
delegations adhered to their official announcements.
it must also be true that the
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