GRE阅读模拟试题

　　In Borkland, university scholarship stipends worth $4.2 million were unclaimed last year because several scholarship programs attracted no applicants who met the programs qualifying criteria.This is an egregious waste of funds in a country where thousands of promising students each year cannot afford tuition.Qualifying criteria for those scholarships, therefore,should be revised.

　　Which of the following, if true about Borkland, most strongly supports the conclusion drawn above?

　　 Many scholarships are unclaimed not because their qualifying criteria are too restrictive but because the scholarship programs rarely announce the scholarships availability.

　　 Because of inflation, the stipends offered by certain scholarship programs now appear less attractive to potential applicants than they did when they were first offered.

　　 A significant number of scholarship programs awarded all of their available scholarship stipends last year, yet most of those programs have very restrictive qualifying criteria.

　　 Certain scholarship programs accept applications only from students enrolled in specific major fields of study, but Borklands universities no longer offer courses in the fields specified by many of those programs.

　　 Several scholarship programs have found it impossible to revise their qualifying criteria without engaging in lengthy and costly legal proceedings.

　　答案：D

　　Questions 1-5

　　A gardener is landscaping part of a front yard with six types of bushesforsythia, holly, lilac, oleander, rose, and spirea.The forsythia and the lilac bushes are the only bushes classified as tall bushes.The gardener will plant two clusters of exactly four bushes each, one on the east edge of the property and one on the west edge.The selection of the bushes is subject to the following constraints:

　　Each type of bush must be used at least once.

　　Each cluster of bushes must contain at least one tall bush.

　　A cluster that includes one or more forsythia bushes must include at least one oleander bush.

　　A lilac bush cannot be planted in the same cluster as a spirea bush.

　　1.If three lilac bushes are selected for one cluster,which of the following can be the bushes selected for the other cluster?

　　 Forsythia, holly, oleander, rose.

　　 Forsythia, holly, rose, spirea.

　　 Forsythia, lilac, oleander, spirea.

　　 Forsythia, oleander, rose, spirea.

　　 Holly, oleander, rose, spirea.

　　2.Which of the following can be the selection of bushes for one of the clusters?

　　 Forsythia, holly, oleander, rose.

　　 Forsythia, holly, oleander, spirea.

　　 Forsythia, lilac, rose, rose.

　　 Forsythia, oleander, oleander, oleander.

　　 Lilac, lilac, rose, spirea.

　　3.If a total of two forsythia bushes is selected, which of the following must be true?

　　 Only one holly bush is selected.

　　 Only one rose bush is selected.

　　 Only one spirea bush is selected.

　　 Two oleander bushes are selected.

　　 The two forsythia bushes are in the same cluster.

　　4.If one rose bush is selected for each cluster, which of the following combinations must complete one of the　clusters?

　　 Forsythia, forsythia, oleander.

　　 Forsythia, lilac, oleander.

　　 Forsythia, oleander, spirea.

　　 Holly, holly,holly.

　　 Holly, lilac, oleander.

　　5.If one forsythia bush is selected for the east cluster,and if two holly bushes are selected for the west cluster, then any of the following can be selected for the east cluster EXCEPT

　　 holly

　　 lilac

　　 oleander

　　 rose

　　 spirea

　　答案：DBC CB

　　Until 1984 only aspirin and acetaminophen shared the lucrative nonprescription pain-reliever market. In 1984, however, ibuprofen was expected to account for fifteen percent of all nonprescription pain-reliever sales.On that basis business experts predicted for 1984 a corresponding fifteen percent decrease in the combined sales of aspirin and acetaminophen. The prediction mentioned in the last sentence above was based on which of the following assumptions?

　　 Most consumers would prefer ibuprofen to both aspirin and acetaminophen.

　　 Aspirin, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen all relieve headache pain and muscular aches, but aspirin and ibuprofen can also cause stomach irritation.

　　 Before 1984 ibuprofen was available only as a prescription medicine.

　　 The companies that manufacture and sell aspirin and acetaminophen would not also manufacture and sell ibuprofen.

　　 The introduction of ibuprofen would not increase total sales of nonprescription pain reliever.

　　答案：E

　　Questions 1-7

　　Seven pedigreed dogsFrieda, King, Laddie, Max., Pal, Spot, and Toppyare entered in a dog show. The dogs must be scheduled into seven consecutive time slots for judging, and only one dog can be scheduled into any time slot. The schedule must be based on the following constraints:

　　Frieda cannot be in a time slot immediately before or immediately after Maxs time slot Laddie cannot be in a time slot immediately before or immediately after Toppys time slot. Pals time slot must be sometime before Spots time slot. King must be in the seventh time slot

　　1. If Pal and Max are the third and fourth dogs judged,respectively, Frieda must be scheduled for a time slot selected from which of the following pairs of slots?

　　 First and second

　　 First and sixth

　　 Second and fifth

　　 Second and sixth

　　 Fifth and sixth

　　2. Which of the following is an acceptable sequence of dogs in the first four time slots?

　　First　　Second　 Third　　Fourth

　　 Frieda Pal Toppy Laddie

　　 Laddie Spot Toppy Pal

　　 Max Frieda Pal Spot

　　 Pal Frieda Laddie King

　　 Toppy Max Pal Laddie

　　3.Any of the following can be the sixth dog judged EXCEPT

　　 Frieda

　　 Laddie

　　 Max

　　 Pal

　　 Spot

　　4. If Pal is the first, Laddie the third, and Fried --------fifth dog judged, which of the following must be true?

　　 The remaining dogs can be acceptably scheduled in either of exactly two ways

　　 The remaining dogs can be acceptably scheduled in only one way.

　　 Max is judged immediately before King

　　 Spot is judged immediately before Laddie

　　 Toppy is judged immediately before Frieda.

　　5.If the first three dogs judged are Max, Pal, and Frieda, respectively, which of the following must be true?

　　 King is the sixth dog judged.

　　 Laddie is the fourth dog judged.

　　 Spot is the fifth dog judged.

　　 Toppy is the fifth dog judged.

　　 Toppy is the sixth dog judged.

　　6.If Laddie is the fourth dog judged, Toppy can be scheduled into any one of how many different time slots?

　　 Two

　　 Three

　　 Four

　　 Five

　　 Six

　　7.If the schedule includes Laddie sometime before Pal and Pal sometime before Max, which of the following must be true?

　　 Laddie is in one of the first three time slots.

　　 Max is in one of the last three time slots

　　 Pal is in one of the first three time slots

　　 Spot is in the time slot immediately after Max

　　 Toppy is in the time slot immediately after Max

　　答案：AEDBC BA