GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Answers

The snow-covered surface of the lake presents a reassuring illusion of________. but beneath the snow the ice is riven with treacherous cracks.

A. uniformity

B. isolation

C. seclusion

D. protection

E. substantially

F. soundness

Harriet Monroe, who founded Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1912. argued that the more heterogeneous and sprawling the modem world became, the more poetry needed "an entrenched place, a voice of power." Hut this goal could only be realized if poets were valued in ways that encouraged them to participate in the world and made writing verse economically viable. Monroe argued that poets needed sites of institutional opportunity like those that had been developed for visual artists, architects, and musicians. She believed that the hand-wringing anticapitalism dominating genteel literary culture--particularly the idea that poetry ought to be removed from "sordid" pecuniary considerations--brought no economic and only illusory aesthetic benefits, instead severing poets from meaningful participation in the modern world.

The passage suggests that Monroe believed that finding "an entrenched place, a voice of power" for poetry would rely on which of the following?

A. Providing poets with a refuge from the sprawling modem world

B. Ensuring that poetry as an art could remain free of economic considerations

C. Creating institutional opportunities for poets to make their work economically viable

Sunflower sea slurs help maintain certain kelp forest ecosystems by eating quickly reproducing prey species such as urchins, thus keeping populations low. Without the sea stars, the urchin population explodes, which is bad news for kelp forests and everything in them. Giant kelp can grow to 150 feet underwater at a speed of two feet a day. but their weaknesses are their holdfasts. which are akin to tree roots. The holdfasts are home to brittle stars, prawns, and snails, among other creatures. Urchins like to eat the kelp holdfasts. Once the holdfasts are gone, the rest of the kelp drifts oft* in the tides. In this way. urchins can destroy the forests, which, higher up. are also home to fish, including several types of commercially important rockfish.

According to the passage, sea urchin populations

A. often drift in the tide along with sea kelp

B. are a favored prey of certain commercially important fish

C. sometimes prey on commercially important fish species

D. can damage the habitats where brittle stars live

E. reproduce most rapidly in holdfasts of kelp forests

Scientists have recently confirmed that Mercury possesses a lot of ice._________discovery for a place that ranks among the hottest in the solar system.

A. a controversial

B. a stunning

C. a doubt fill

D. a counterintuitive

E. a dubious

F. an unexpected

If the ratio of positive integer x to positive integer y is 4 to 3, then x + y must be a multiple of integer k. where k > I. What is the value of k?

A. K= 7

The perimeter of rectangle ABCD is 20. and the length of each side is an integer. Which of the following values could be the length of diagonal AC?

Indicate all such values.

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

Company A had 47 employees a! the beginning of 2001 and 78 employees at the beginning of 2008. Company B had 53 employees at the beginning of 2004 and 90 employees at the

beginning of 2013.

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.

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.

In Country P in 2013, how much more was spent on television advertising than on radio and Internet advertising combined? Give your answer to the nearest million dollars.

A. 342 million