GRE Online Tests - Full Length Test 2

Choose Antonyms:

AGILITY :

Choose Antonyms:

AMBULATORY :

Sentence Completion

Although the developers have not yet been able to solve the problem in the new software, their lack of …........so far cannot be interpreted as final…........

Sentence Completion:

Apprehensive that the matter would….......into a…......., the board members chose to settle the controversy as quickly as possible.

Analogies:

ABSTEMIOUS : DEVOUR

Analogies:

CREDULOUS : CONVINCED

Reading Comprehension: Question 7-8 are based on the passage.

When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world. Communications and commerce are global. Investment is mobile. Technology is almost magical, and ambition for a better life is now universal.

We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people all across the Earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot work at all; when the cost of healthcare devastates families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and small; when the fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

What is the main idea of the speech so far?*

Reading Comprehension: Question are based on the passage.

Bill Clinton’s Inaugural Address

When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world. Communications and commerce are global. Investment is mobile. Technology is almost magical, and ambition for a better life is now universal.

We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people all across the Earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot work at all; when the cost of healthcare devastates families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and small; when the fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

When President Clinton says that “most people are working harder for less,” he is*

APHASIA :

CELEBATE :

DESPICABLE :

GLIB : PROFUNDITY :

ASSUAGE : ANGER :

Over the years, the apprentice has…........been gaining…..........

The superficiality of his tranquility was…...........by the shiver of his hands as he tried to pick up the glass.

Reading Comprehension: Questions 16-19 are based on the passage.

A theorist of modernization in underdeveloped countries has defined this process as one of passing from “traditional authority,” derived from long-standing custom and the authority of kinship leaders, to “legal-rational authority,” based on procedures specifically established for particular goals. No doubt this scheme works well enough in categorizing some societies, but how is one to classify the Ibo society of southeastern Nigeria? In precolonial Ibo society, village decisions were reached in general meetings, and formalized by striking the ground with an ofo, a staff possessed by the head of a kinship group. This might seem to fit the theorist’s model; but the Ibo altered this procedure whenever appropriate—for instance, if the senior kinship head forgot his ofo, any other ofo could be used. The Ibo, too, freely revised any customary procedures in order to pursue trade—a flexibility that served them well in the new capitalist economy introduced by colonialism. If this theorist is to be consistent, he must concede that the Ibo were “modern” before the first colonist stepped ashore.

The author’s main purpose in this passage is to*

Reading Comprehension: Questions are based on the passage.

A theorist of modernization in underdeveloped countries has defined this process as one of passing from “traditional authority,” derived from long-standing custom and the authority of kinship leaders, to “legal-rational authority,” based on procedures specifically established for particular goals. No doubt this scheme works well enough in categorizing some societies, but how is one to classify the Ibo society of southeastern Nigeria? In precolonial Ibo society, village decisions were reached in general meetings, and formalized by striking the ground with an ofo, a staff possessed by the head of a kinship group. This might seem to fit the theorist’s model; but the Ibo altered this procedure whenever appropriate—for instance, if the senior kinship head forgot his ofo, any other ofo could be used. The Ibo, too, freely revised any customary procedures in order to pursue trade—a flexibility that served them well in the new capitalist economy introduced by colonialism. If this theorist is to be consistent, he must concede that the Ibo were “modern” before the first colonist stepped ashore.

Which of the following can be inferred to be consistent with the conception of “legal-rational authority,” as defined in this passage?*

I. A procedure is acceptable if it is not forbidden by law and is suited to a specified purpose.
II. A leader has unlimited authority within an area determined by custom.
III. A practice is correct if is one that has always been used in the past.

Reading Comprehension: Questions are based on the passage.

A theorist of modernization in underdeveloped countries has defined this process as one of passing from “traditional authority,” derived from long-standing custom and the authority of kinship leaders, to “legal-rational authority,” based on procedures specifically established for particular goals. No doubt this scheme works well enough in categorizing some societies, but how is one to classify the Ibo society of southeastern Nigeria? In precolonial Ibo society, village decisions were reached in general meetings, and formalized by striking the ground with an ofo, a staff possessed by the head of a kinship group. This might seem to fit the theorist’s model; but the Ibo altered this procedure whenever appropriate—for instance, if the senior kinship head forgot his ofo, any other ofo could be used. The Ibo, too, freely revised any customary procedures in order to pursue trade—a flexibility that served them well in the new capitalist economy introduced by colonialism. If this theorist is to be consistent, he must concede that the Ibo were “modern” before the first colonist stepped ashore.

The author mentions the practice of substituting one for another as an example of*

Reading Comprehension: Questions are based on the passage.

A theorist of modernization in underdeveloped countries has defined this process as one of passing from “traditional authority,” derived from long-standing custom and the authority of kinship leaders, to “legal-rational authority,” based on procedures specifically established for particular goals. No doubt this scheme works well enough in categorizing some societies, but how is one to classify the Ibo society of southeastern Nigeria? In precolonial Ibo society, village decisions were reached in general meetings, and formalized by striking the ground with an ofo, a staff possessed by the head of a kinship group. This might seem to fit the theorist’s model; but the Ibo altered this procedure whenever appropriate—for instance, if the senior kinship head forgot his ofo, any other ofo could be used. The Ibo, too, freely revised any customary procedures in order to pursue trade—a flexibility that served them well in the new capitalist economy introduced by colonialism. If this theorist is to be consistent, he must concede that the Ibo were “modern” before the first colonist stepped ashore.

The author would state that the categorization used by the theorist of modernization is*

Ennui :

ERRATIC :

GUSTY :

OPULENCE :

Because modern scientists find the primeval Greek view of the universe obsolete and irrelevant, they now perceive it as only of…............significance.

James Agee’s award winning novel exemplifies the strength of first person narratives; the protagonist tells her own story so effectively that any additional commentary would be ….....

FIDGET : NERVOUSNESS

AFFECTION : EMBRACE

Reading Comprehension: Questions 28-30 are based on the following passage.

Without some appreciation of common large numbers, it’s impossible to react with the proper skepticism to terrifying reports that more than a million American kids are kidnapped each year, or with the proper sobriety to a warhead carrying a megaton of explosive power—the equivalent of a million tons (ortwo billion pounds) of TNT. And if you don’t have some feeling for probabilities, automobile accidents might seem a relatively minor problem of local travel, whereas being killed by terrorists might seem to be a major risk when going overseas. As often observed, however, the 45,000 people killed annually on American roads are approximately equal in number to all American dead in the Vietnam War. On the other hand, the seventeen Americans killed by terrorists in 1985 were among the 28 million of us who traveled abroad that year—that’s one chance in 1.6 million of becoming a victim. Compare that with these annual rates in the United States: one chance in 68,000 of choking to death; one chance in 75,000 of dying in a bicycle crash; one chance in 20,000 of drowning; and one chance in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash.

Confronted with these large numbers and with the correspondingly small probabilities associated with them, the innumerate will inevitably respond with the non sequitur,1 “Yes, but what if you’re that one,” and then nod knowingly, as if they’ve demolished your argument with penetrating insight. This tendency to personalize is a characteristic of many who suffer from innumeracy. Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week. There’s a joke I like that’s marginally relevant. An old married couple in their nineties contact a divorce lawyer, who pleads with them to stay together. “Why get divorced now after seventy years of marriage?” The little old lady finally pipes up in a creaky voice: “We wanted to wait until the children were dead.” A feeling for what quantities or time spans are appropriate in various contexts is essential to getting the joke. Slipping between millions and billions or between billions and trillions should in this sense be equally funny, but it isn’t, because we too often lack an intuitive grasp for these numbers. A recent study by Drs. Kronlund and Phillips of the University of Washington showed that most doctors’ assessments of the risks of various operations, procedures, and medications (even in their own specialties) were way off the mark, often by several orders of magnitude. I once had a conversation with a doctor who, within approximately 20 minutes, stated that a certain procedure he was contemplating (a) had a one-chance-in-amillion risk associated with it; (b) was 99 percent safe; and c usually went quite well. Given the fact that so many doctors seem to believe that there must be at least eleven people in the waiting room if they’re to avoid being idle, I’m not surprised at this new evidence of their innumeracy.

Which of the following can be inferred to be the author’s view of the “reports that more than a million American kids are kidnapped each year” (line 2)?*

Reading Comprehension: Questions are based on the following passage.

Without some appreciation of common large numbers, it’s impossible to react with the proper skepticism to terrifying reports that more than a million American kids are kidnapped each year, or with the proper sobriety to a warhead carrying a megaton of explosive power—the equivalent of a million tons (ortwo billion pounds) of TNT. And if you don’t have some feeling for probabilities, automobile accidents might seem a relatively minor problem of local travel, whereas being killed by terrorists might seem to be a major risk when going overseas. As often observed, however, the 45,000 people killed annually on American roads are approximately equal in number to all American dead in the Vietnam War. On the other hand, the seventeen Americans killed by terrorists in 1985 were among the 28 million of us who traveled abroad that year—that’s one chance in 1.6 million of becoming a victim. Compare that with these annual rates in the United States: one chance in 68,000 of choking to death; one chance in 75,000 of dying in a bicycle crash; one chance in 20,000 of drowning; and one chance in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash.

Confronted with these large numbers and with the correspondingly small probabilities associated with them, the innumerate will inevitably respond with the non sequitur,1 “Yes, but what if you’re that one,” and then nod knowingly, as if they’ve demolished your argument with penetrating insight. This tendency to personalize is a characteristic of many who suffer from innumeracy. Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week. There’s a joke I like that’s marginally relevant. An old married couple in their nineties contact a divorce lawyer, who pleads with them to stay together. “Why get divorced now after seventy years of marriage?” The little old lady finally pipes up in a creaky voice: “We wanted to wait until the children were dead.” A feeling for what quantities or time spans are appropriate in various contexts is essential to getting the joke. Slipping between millions and billions or between billions and trillions should in this sense be equally funny, but it isn’t, because we too often lack an intuitive grasp for these numbers. A recent study by Drs. Kronlund and Phillips of the University of Washington showed that most doctors’ assessments of the risks of various operations, procedures, and medications (even in their own specialties) were way off the mark, often by several orders of magnitude. I once had a conversation with a doctor who, within approximately 20 minutes, stated that a certain procedure he was contemplating (a) had a one-chance-in-amillion risk associated with it; (b) was 99 percent safe; and c usually went quite well. Given the fact that so many doctors seem to believe that there must be at least eleven people in the waiting room if they’re to avoid being idle, I’m not surprised at this new evidence of their innumeracy.

The author mentions the time span of “approximately 20 minutes” (lines 27–28) in order to emphasize*

Reading Comprehension: Questions are based on the following passage.

Without some appreciation of common large numbers, it’s impossible to react with the proper skepticism to terrifying reports that more than a million American kids are kidnapped each year, or with the proper sobriety to a warhead carrying a megaton of explosive power—the equivalent of a million tons (ortwo billion pounds) of TNT. And if you don’t have some feeling for probabilities, automobile accidents might seem a relatively minor problem of local travel, whereas being killed by terrorists might seem to be a major risk when going overseas. As often observed, however, the 45,000 people killed annually on American roads are approximately equal in number to all American dead in the Vietnam War. On the other hand, the seventeen Americans killed by terrorists in 1985 were among the 28 million of us who traveled abroad that year—that’s one chance in 1.6 million of becoming a victim. Compare that with these annual rates in the United States: one chance in 68,000 of choking to death; one chance in 75,000 of dying in a bicycle crash; one chance in 20,000 of drowning; and one chance in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash.

Confronted with these large numbers and with the correspondingly small probabilities associated with them, the innumerate will inevitably respond with the non sequitur,1 “Yes, but what if you’re that one,” and then nod knowingly, as if they’ve demolished your argument with penetrating insight. This tendency to personalize is a characteristic of many who suffer from innumeracy. Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week. There’s a joke I like that’s marginally relevant. An old married couple in their nineties contact a divorce lawyer, who pleads with them to stay together. “Why get divorced now after seventy years of marriage?” The little old lady finally pipes up in a creaky voice: “We wanted to wait until the children were dead.” A feeling for what quantities or time spans are appropriate in various contexts is essential to getting the joke. Slipping between millions and billions or between billions and trillions should in this sense be equally funny, but it isn’t, because we too often lack an intuitive grasp for these numbers. A recent study by Drs. Kronlund and Phillips of the University of Washington showed that most doctors’ assessments of the risks of various operations, procedures, and medications (even in their own specialties) were way off the mark, often by several orders of magnitude. I once had a conversation with a doctor who, within approximately 20 minutes, stated that a certain procedure he was contemplating (a) had a one-chance-in-amillion risk associated with it; (b) was 99 percent safe; and c usually went quite well. Given the fact that so many doctors seem to believe that there must be at least eleven people in the waiting room if they’re to avoid being idle, I’m not surprised at this new evidence of their innumeracy.

Which of the following is not an element of the discussion in this passage?*

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

x > 0

Column A – 1/3x

Column B – 3x

The total price of m (m > 1) equally priced copies of a certain book is $80. In terms of m, which of the following gives the total price of m – 1 of these copies?

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

The average score for the girls was 78 and for the boys was 84 in the final exam Maths 110.

Column A – The average score for the class

Column B – 81

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

Column A –

Column B –

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

A is a negative number

Column A – a*a

Column B –

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

x and y are positive prime numbers.

Column A – Number of factors of ‘xy’

Column B – 4

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

Column A – The number of distinct prime factors of m

Column B – The number of distinct prime factors of 4m

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

u and v are integers greater than 0.

Column A – u/v

Column B – u*u

In the figure above, CE = 5, BD = 8, and the area of quadrilateral ABCD is 36. What is the area of â–³ABD ?*

Cheryl received of the votes cast in a certain election. What fraction of the other votes cast would she have needed in order to have received of the votes cast?

If u and v are different positive prime numbers, which of the integers , and , have exactly 4 positive divisors?

If the perimeter of square region S and the perimeter of circular region C are equal, then the ratio of the area of S to the area of C is closest to

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

a<0

Column A –

Column B –

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

43. (a+1)(a+2)(a+3) = 720

Column A – a+2

Column B – 10

Frequency of burglaries and car thefts known to the police in 1998 and 1999.

Which city experienced the fourth-highest number of burglaries in 1999?*

Frequency of burglaries and car thefts known to the police in 1998 and 1999.

In how many cities did the number of burglaries decrease from 1998 to 1999, while in the same period the number of motor vehicle thefts increased ?*

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

The sides of the triangle are 3,4 and x

Column A – x

Column B – 8

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

48. Line k goes through (1,1) and (5,2). Line m is perpendicular to k.

Column A – Slope of line k

Column B – Slope of line m

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

Three fair cons are tossed.

Column A – The probability of getting one head

Column B – The probability of getting one head

See the graphs to answer the questions. Shipping Rates For Express Parcel Service, INC.

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How much more does it cost to send a parcel weighing 16.5 pounds by express delivery than to send the same parcel by ground delivery?*

See the graphs to answer the questions. Shipping Rates For Express Parcel Service, INC.

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By approximately what percent does the average air delivery cost per pound for a 21-pound parcel exceed the average ground delivery cost per pound for a 28-pound parcel?*

Melody bought a laptop for $530, which was the retail price plus a 6 percent sales tax. How much money could she have saved if she had bought the laptop at the same retail price in another city where she would have paid a sales tax of 5 percent?

Candy went on a diet 6 months ago when he weighed 222 pounds. If she now weighs 198 pounds and continues to lose at the same average monthly rate, in approximately how many months will she weigh 180 pounds?

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

Column A – The number of years from 1776 to 1989

Column B – The number of years from 1767 to 1998.

Quantitative Comparison Questions

Directions: Each question of this type consists of two quantities, one in Column A and one in Column B. Compare the two quantities and indicate:

1 < u < v < 2

Column A – uv

Column B – u+v

If m is a positive number less than 10, which of the following is least ?

What is the area of a square with perimeter P ?