GRE TEST 16
1. Unlike the easily studied neutral and ionized___ that compose the primary disk of the Milky Way itself, the components of the ___surrounding our galaxy have proved more resistant to study.
(A) figments.. envelope
(B) essences.. fluctuations
(C) elements. .problems
(D) calculations. .perimeter
(E) materials.. region
2. As Juanita argued, this new code of conduct is laughable; its principles are either ___, offering no wisdom but the obvious, or are so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action ___.
(A) irresolute.. unlikely
(B) corroborative. .redundant
(C) platitudinous.. justifiable
(D) homogeneous.. impartial
(E) labyrinthine.. unacceptable
3. The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an ___process closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.
(A) unreliable
(B) arcane
(C) arrogant
(D) elementary
(E) intuitive
4. It is strange how words shape our thoughts and trap us at the bottom of deeply ___canyons of thinking, their imprisoning sides carved out by the___ of past usage.
(A) cleaved.. eruptions
(B) rooted.. flood
(C) incised. .river
(D) ridged.. ocean
(E) notched.. mountains
5. Cezanne's delicate watercolor sketches often served as___ of a subject, way of gathering fuller knowledge before the artist's final engagement of the subject in an oil painting.
(A) an abstraction
(B) an enhancement
(C) a synthesis
(D) a reconnaissance
(E) a transcription
6. Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the _____ of society, the conventionality of academe.
(A) ethos
(B) idealism
(C) romance
(D) paradoxes
(E) commonplaces
7. Just as astrology was for centuries _____faith, countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of_____ the professional sciences.
(A) an individual.. rebellion by
(B) an accepted.. antagonism toward
(C) an underground.. defiance against
(D) a heretical.. support for
(E) an unknown.. concern about
8. Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of___ resulting from the carbon atom's ability to form an unending series of different molecules.
(A) deviation
(B) stability
(C) reproduction
(D) variety
(E) invigoration
9. Aptly enough, this work so imbued with the notion of changing times and styles has been constantly___ over the years, thereby reflecting its own mutability.
(A) appreciated
(B) emulated
(C) criticized
(D) revised
(E) reprinted
10. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not magical___ or a brilliant ___blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.
(A) stratagem.. appropriation
(B) exemplar.. synthesis
(C) conversion.. annexation
(D) paradigm.. construct
(E) apparition. .amalgam
11. In the days before the mass marketing of books, censorship was___ source of ___ , which helped the sale of the book and inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson to remark :"Every burned book enlightens the world."
(A) a respected. .opinion
(B) a constant.. guidance
(C) a prime. publicity
(D) an unnoticed.. opposition
(E) an unpromising.. criticism
12. How could words, confined as they individually are to certain___ meanings specified in a dictionary, eventually come, when combined in groups, to create obscurity an actually to prevent though from being ___ ?
(A) indefinite ..articulated
(B) conventional.. conceivable
(C) unlikely. .classified
(D) archaic.. expressed
(E) precise.. communicable
13. Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown problems, New Deal economic stratagems became___ as a result of bureaucratization, their flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their transformation into rigid policies.
(A) politicized
(B) consolidated
(C) ossified
(D) ungovernable
(E) streamlined
14. This project is the first step in a long-range plan of research whose___ goal, still many years off ,is the creation of a new prototype.
(A) cooperative
(B) reasoned
(C) original
(D) ultimate
(E) intentional
15. New research on technology and public policy focuses on how seemingly___ design features , generally overlooked in most analyses of public works projects or industrial machinery, actually___ social choices of profound significance.
(A) insignificant.. mask
(B) inexpensive.. produce
(C) innovative.. represent
(D) ingenious.. permit
(E) inopportune.. hasten
GRE TEST 16 ANSWER KEY 16 :
ANSWER KEYS FOR 1-15: ECBCD ECDDE CECDA
GRE TEST 17
1. Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases ; consequently, hereditary diseases that are ___would be expected to be very ___ , but, surprisingly, they are not.
(A) lethal.. rare
(B) untreated.. dangerous
(C) unusual.. refractory
(D) new.. perplexing
(E) widespread. .acute
2. An investigation that is ___can occasionally yield new facts , even notable ones; typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction.
(A) timely
(B) unguided
(C) consistent
(D) uncomplicated
(E) subjective
3. The struggle of the generation is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ___critical.
(A) perennially
(B) disturbingly
(C) uniquely
(D) archetypal
(E) cautiously
4. Any population increase beyond a certain lever necessitates greater ___vegetable foods; thus, the ability of a society to choose meat over cereals always arises, in part ,from ___the number of people.
(A) reliance on. replenishing
(B) production of ..estimating
(C) spending on ..concealing
(D) recourse to ..limiting
(E) attention to ..varying
5. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ___ ; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ___of natural beauty and human glory.
(A) beautiful..immutability
(B) cheerful..transitoriness
(C) colorful..abstractness
(D) luxuriant..simplicity
(E) conventional..wildness
6. The chances that a species will___ are reduced if any vital functions restricted to a single kind of organ;___ by itself possesses an enormous survival advantage.
(A) degenerate.. complexity
(B) expire.. size
(C) disappear.. variety
(D) flourish.. symmetry
(E) persist.. redundancy
7. Documenting science's___ philosophy would be ___ ; since it is almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations.
(A) distrust of.. elementary
(B) influence on.. superfluous
(C) reliance on.. inappropriate
(D) dependence on.. difficult
(E) differences from. .impossible
8. Art___ science, but that does not mean that the artist must also be a scientist; an artist uses the fruits of science but need not___ the theories from which they derive.
(A) precedes.. anticipate
(B) incorporates.. understand
(C) transcends.. abandon
(D) imitates.. repudiate
(E) resembles.. contest
9. Nature's energy efficiency often___ human technology : despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency___ the firefly's system.
(A) engenders.. manipulates
(B) reflects.. simulates
(C) outstrips.. rivals
(D) inhibits.. matches
(E) determines.. reproduces
10. At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating ; but, as saw more of her, I found that___ was very near the surface.
(A) seriousness
(B) confidence
(C) laughter
(D) poise
(E) determination
11. People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be ___; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of ___.
(A) depraved.. hesitation
(B) cruel.. effortlessness
(C) wicked.. indolence
(D) unjust.. boredom
(E) iniquitous.. impiety
12. Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one___ among millions ; yet each outcome can be___ interpreted .
(A) coincidence.. randomly
(B) relationship. .predictably
(C) fact.. readily
(D) happening. .uniquely
(E) possibility.. rationally
13. No one is ___about Stephens; he inspires either uncritical adulation or profound___ in those who work for him.
(A) neutral.. antipathy
(B) infuriated.. aversion
(C) worried.. anxiety
(D) enthusiastic.. veneration
(E) apprehensive.. consternation
14. Industrialists seized economic power only after industry had___ agriculture as the preeminent form of production; previously such power had___ land ownership.
(A) sabotaged.. threatened
(B) overtaken.. produced
(C) toppled.. culminated
(D) joined.. relied on
(E) supplanted. .resided in
15. The old man could not have been accused of ___his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his___ her.
(A) lavishing. .fondness for
(B) sparing ..tolerance of
(C) rationing. .antipathy for
(D) stinting.. adoration of
(E) promising.. dislike of
GRE TEST 17 ANSWER KEY:1-15: ABCDB EBBCC CEAED
GRE TEST 18
1. As painted by Constable, the scene is not one of bucolic___; rather it shows a striking emotional and intellectual___.
(A) intensity..boredom
(B) complacence..detachment
(C) serenity..tension
(D) vitality..excitement
E) nostalgia..placidity
2. The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history; consequently, any historical writing that takes no cognizance of ___fact is ___flawed.
(A) demographic..intrinsically
(B) ecological..marginally
(C) cultural..substantively
(D) psychological..philosophically
(E) political..demonstratively
3. Jones was unable to recognize the contradictions in his attitudes that were obvious to everyone else; even the hint of an untruth was___to him, but he___serious trouble by always cheating on his taxes.
(A) acceptable..risked
(B) exciting..averted
(C) repugnant..courted
(D) anathema..evaded
(E) tempting..hazarded
4. Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using hormones to treat human beings,however, is contingent on whether hormones that___in the laboratory can affect ___organisms, and in predictable ways.
(A) develop..similar
(B) work..whole
(C) succeed..simpler
(D) reproduce..unknown
(E) fail..cellular
5. Among the many ___of the project,expense cannot be numbered; the goals of the project's promoters can be achieved with impressive___.
(A) highlights..efficiency
(B) features..savings
(C) disadvantages..innovation
(D) claims..speed
(E) defects..economy
6. If duty is the natural___of one's___the course of future events;then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
(A) correlate..understanding of
(B) outgrowth..control over
(C) determinant..involvement in
(D) mitigant..preoccupation with
(E) arbiter..responsibility for
7. Salazar's presence in the group was so___the others that they lost most of their earlier___;failure,for them,became all but unthinkable.
(A) reassuring to..trepidation
(B) unnoticed by..curiosity
(C) unusual to..harmony
(D) endearing to..confidence
(E) unexpected by..exhilaration
8. Neither the idea of philosophers nor the practices of ordinary people can, by themselves, ___reality;what in fact changes reality,kindles revolutions is the ___of the two.
(A) constitute..divergence
(B) affect..aim
(C) transform..interplay
(D) preserve..conjunction
(E) alter..intervention
9. Histocompatibility antigens that attack foreign tissue in the body cannot have been ___through evolution expressly to___ organ transplantation;on the contrary, they have been found to facilitate many essential biological functions.
(A) designed..retain
(B) produced..aid
(C) developed..enhance
(D) selected..promote
(E) conserved..foil
10. Because they had various meanings in nineteenth-century biological thought,"mechanism"and "vitalism"ought not to be considered___terms ;thus,I find the recent insistence that the terms had single definitions to be entirely___.
(A) univocal..erroneous
(B) problematic..anachronistic
(C) intractable..obtuse
(D) congruent..suspect
(E) multifaceted..vapid
11. Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the data accumulated are not directly___to environmental questions;thus,a new program specially addressing such question is___.
(A) analogous..promising
(B) transferable..contradictory
(C) antithetical..unremarkable
(D) applicable..warranted
(E) pertinent..unnecessary
12. The trick for Michael was to___his son an illusory orderliness; only alone at night ,when the boy was asleep,could Michael___ the chaos he kept hidden from his son.
(A) explore with..demonstrate
(B) conjure for..acknowledge
(C) conceal from..dispel
(D) demystify for..escape
(E) endure with..abandon
13. The "impostor syndrome"often afflicts those who fear that true self-disclosure will lower them in other's esteem;rightly handled, however,___may actually___one's standing.
(A) willfulness..consolidate
(B) imposture..undermine
(C) affection..jeopardize
(D) candor..enhance
(E) mimicry..efface
14. The sea was not an___the___of the windmill;on the contrary, while the concept of the new invention passed quickly from seaport to seaport, it made little headway inland.
(A) element in..evolution
(B) issue in..acceptance
(C) aid to..designers
(D) obstacle to..diffusion
(E) impediment to..creation
15. Although ancient tools were ____preserved,enough have survived to allow us to demonstrate an occasionally interrupted but generally____progress through prehistory.
(A) partially....noticeable
(B) superficially....necessary
(C) unwittingly....documented
(D) rarely....continual
(E) needlessly....incessant
16. In the seventeenth century,direct flouting of a generally accepted system of values was regarded as____,even as a sign of madness.
(A) adventurous
(B) frivolous
(C) willful
(D) impermissible
(E) irrational
17. Kagan maintains that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development,not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or____signs of adolescent anxiety.
(A) prophetic
(B) normal
(C) monotonous
(D) virtual
(E) typical
18. The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of____for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to____its own continental coastline.
(A) negligence..fortify
(B) custom..maintain
(C) convenience..stabilize
(D) expediency..defend
(E) exigency..reinforce
GRE TEST 18 ANSWER KEYS:
1-10: CACBE BACEA
11-18: DBDDD EAD
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