Admission Tests GRE General Test Sample Questions:

1. When applied !o written records, the word "preservation" is fraught with multiple meanings and connotations For some archivists, preservation involves the attempt to save artifacts from physical deterioration and is synonymous with the conservation of original documents. For archivists with a contrary view, the overriding obligation is to save intellectual content through the use of surrogates. Thus the original earners of information are seen as superfluous and consequently disposable The practice of microfilming old newspapers and discarding the originals is one example of such preservation. On yet another level, preservation considers whether limited storage space should be allotted indefinitely to materials that are rarely consulted or whether certain items are so peripheral to current interests that they should be discarded altogether to ensure a home for more-pertinent materials.
In the context in which it appears, "obligation most nearly means

A) liability
B) compulsion
C) responsibility
D) imposition
E) prerequisite

2. As originally formulated, the selfish-herd theory of prey species aggregation assumed that predatory attacks were equally likely to be launched from any position within the environment. In some circumstances (e.g..
avian predators attacking prey from above), such an approach is appropriate. However, as James et al. argue, in many predator-prey associations, attacks are unlikely to occur from positions within the group. For example, it is likely that an ambushing predator waiting in the path of a group would be detected before the group moves over its position. Hence, in many ecological situations, predatory attacks on grouped prey will occur exclusively from outside the group. In such circumstances, there is a strong premium to a group member in being in the interior of the group.
James would most likely describe the original formulation of the selfish-herd theory as

A) insufficiently attentive to the diversity of predator-prey associations
B) ill-equipped to explain exceptions to standard predator-prey associations
C) excessively concerned with the outcomes of predator-prey associations
D) problematically neglectful of the cooperative elements of predator-prey associations
E) completely untenable in its explanation of predator-prey associations

3. Unfortunately. most of the (i)_________suburbia comes from metropolitan critics who glimpse it only fleethigly. Accustomed to the more structured forms of the city, they see only visual (ii)_________. And failing to recognize the interactions customary in an urban setting in the social and community life of suburbanites, they see social (iii)_________and miss the real diversity and richness.

A) practices
B) development
C) analogies
D) analysis of
E) encroachment on
F) chaos
G) appreciation of
H) enhancements

4. The five points C, D, E, F, and G lie on the number line, in that order from left to right, so that CD = 1.5 (EF) and DE = 1.5 (FG).

A) Quantity B is greater.
B) Quantity A is greater.
C) The two quantities are equal.
D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

5. How much more is 20 percent of x than of 1 percent of x?

A) 0.192x
B) 0.198x
C) B
0.18x
D) 0.19.8x

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