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GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS®
Practice General Test #1
Answer Key for Sections 1-4
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Revised GRE® Practice Test Number 1
Answer Key for Section 1. Verbal Reasoning. 25 Questions.
Question 1
Answer: A. In various parts of the world, civilizations that could not make iron from ore fashioned tools out of fragments of iron from meteorites.
Question 2
Answer: A. An increased focus on the importance of engaging the audience in a narrative
Question 3
Answer: C. speak to
Question 4
Answer: A. People with access to an electric washing machine typically wore their clothes many fewer times before washing them than did people without access to electric washing machines.
Question 5
Answer: C. insular
Answer in context: In the 1950’s, the country’s inhabitants were insular: most of them knew very little about foreign countries.
Question 6
Answer: E. insincere
Answer in context: Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been insincere.
Question 7
Answer: A. maturity
Answer in context: It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of maturity.
Question 8
Answer: C. comparing two scholarly debates and discussing their histories
Question 9
Answer: D. identify a reason for a certain difference in the late 1970’s between the origins debate and the debate over American women’s status
Question 10
Answer: D. Their approach resembled the approach taken in studies by Wood and by Mullin in that they were interested in the
GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS®
Practice General Test #1
Answer Key for Sections 1-4
Copyright © 2010 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. ETS, the ETS logo, GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS, and GRE are registered trademarks of Educational Testing Service (ETS) in the United States and other countries.
Revised GRE® Practice Test Number 1
Answer Key for Section 1. Verbal Reasoning. 25 Questions.
Question 1
Answer: A. In various parts of the world, civilizations that could not make iron from ore fashioned tools out of fragments of iron from meteorites.
Question 2
Answer: A. An increased focus on the importance of engaging the audience in a narrative
Question 3
Answer: C. speak to
Question 4
Answer: A. People with access to an electric washing machine typically wore their clothes many fewer times before washing them than did people without access to electric washing machines.
Question 5
Answer: C. insular
Answer in context: In the 1950’s, the country’s inhabitants were insular: most of them knew very little about foreign countries.
Question 6
Answer: E. insincere
Answer in context: Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been insincere.
Question 7
Answer: A. maturity
Answer in context: It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of maturity.
Question 8
Answer: C. comparing two scholarly debates and discussing their histories
Question 9
Answer: D. identify a reason for a certain difference in the late 1970’s between the origins debate and the debate over American women’s status
Question 10
Answer: D. Their approach resembled the approach taken in studies by Wood and by Mullin in that they were interested in the