GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Answers

Because most of the fish and waterfowl observed in the Arctic Ocean are (i)_________species, disruptive changes at all levels of the Arctic food chain that have resulted from rapid warning and loss of sea ice there will (ii)_________ ecosystems in more southerly habitats.

A. adaptable

B. have an impact upon

C. endangered

D. resemble those in

E. migratory

F. reveal the diversity of

A divide between aesthetic and technical considerations has played a crucial role in mapmakiug and cartographic scholarship. Some nineteenth-century cartographers, for instance, understood themselves as technicians who did not care about visual effects, while others saw themselves as landscape painters. That dichotomy structured the discipline of the history of cartography. Until the 1980s, in what Blakemore and Harley called "the 'Old is Beautiful' paradigm." scholars largely focused on maps made before 1800. marveling at their beauty and sometimes regretting the decline of the pre-technical age. Early mapmaking was considered art while modem cartography was located within the realm of engineering utility. Alpers. however, has argued that this boundary would have puzzled mapmakers in the seventeenth century, because they considered themselves to be visual engineers.

It can be inferred from the passage that, beginning in the 1980s. historians of cartography

A. placed greater emphasis on the beauty of maps made after 1800

B. expanded their range of study to include more material created after 1800

C. grew more sensitive to the way mapmakers prior to 1800 conceived of their work

D. came to see the visual details of maps as aesthetic objects rather tlian practical cartographic aids

E. reduced the attention they paid to the technical aspects of mapmaking

Greenberg's book presents a very good argument that there is something not quite (i)_________in the science

community's perennial lament over inadequate budgets. Although the lament (ii)_________fears over looming

shortages of scientifically trained personnel, the reality. Greenberg argues, is that government support for science and engineering has never been greater, with budgets continuing to grow every year--even through the past decade, when the climate for government spending generally has not been (iii)_________one.

A. forthright

B. original

C. sophisticated

D. Understates

E. alleviates

F. encourages

G. an expansive

H. a forbiddine

I. a perilous

Laws protecting intellectual properly are intended to stimulate creativity, yet some tonus of creative work have never enjoyed legal protection--a situation that ought to be of great interest. If we see certain forms of creative endeavor (1) _________as a result of uncontrolled copying, we might decide tot (ii )_________intellectual property law. Conversely, if unprotected creative work (iii)_________in the absence of legal rules against copying, we would do well to know how such flourishing is sustained.

A. languishing

B. proliferating

C. diversifying

D. jettison

E. declines in originality

F. extend

G. relax

H. manages to thrive

I. openly invites imitation

One reason researchers have long believed that Mars never enjoyed an extensive period of warm and wet climate is that much of the surface not covered by wind-borne dust appears to be composed of unweathered material. If water flowed for an extended period, researchers reasoned, it should have altered and weathered the volcanic minerals, creating clays or other oxidized, hydrated phases (minerals that incorporate water molecules in their crystal structure).

It turns out. though, that the scientists were not looking closely enough. New high- resolution mapping data and close-up surface studies have revealed clays and other hydrated minerals in many regions The clay deposits are scattered all over, in ancient volcanic surfaces and heavily cratered highland regions, some of which have apparently been exposed by erosion only recently.

Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

The passage indicates which of the following about the clay deposits an Mars?

A. They are widely distributed.

B. They are not the only hydrated minerals on Mars.

C. They have only recently been detected.

Despite the (i)_________name given to the fossil species, the fossil itself was (ii)_________: a wing bone, it measured nearly 0.6 meters (two feed long, indicating that its owner had been a very large bird, twice the size of some modern albatrosses.

A. uninspiring

B. ambiguous

C. suggestive

D. primitive

E. ancient

Since scientific truths must be discovered, and since many, probably most, are far from (i)_________. Futile investigations are (ii)_________. Thus, the path to the truth is decidedly a (iii)_________one.

A. intuitively obvious

B. routinelv acelauned

C. hie vi table

D. sinuous

E. potentially useful

F. auspicious

G. ne eligible

H. clandestine

I. progressive

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.

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.

Region A accounted for

of the amount spent on advertising in Country P in 2013. and the percent spent on television advertising in 8 Region A in 2012 was the same as the percent spent on television advertising in Country P in 2013. Approximately how much was spent on television advertising in Region A in 2012?

A. $58 million

B. $62 million

C. $66 million

D. $70 million

E. $S74 million