GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions
SET 3 Discrete Question: Medium
【1】4 Richard M. Russell said 52 percent of the nation’s growth since the Second World War had (i)_________ invention. He said, (ii)_________ research, the government’s greatest role in assuring continuing innovation is promoting a strong, modern patent office. “Unless we can (iii)_________ original ideas, we will not have invention.” Mr. Russell said. Speculating on the state of innovation over the next century, several inventors agreed that the future lay in giving children the tools to think creatively and the motivation to invent.
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| A been at the expense of | D in addition to restricting | G evaluate |
| B no bearing on | E aside from supporting | H protect |
| C come through | F far from exaggerating | I disseminate |
【2】5 Statements presented as fact in a patent application are (i)_________ unless a good reason for doubt is found. The invention has only to be deemed “more likely than not” to work in order to receive initial approval. And, although thousands of patents are challenged in court for other reasons, no incentive exists for anyone to expend effort (ii)_________ the science of an erroneous patent. For this reason the endless stream of (iii)_________ devices will continue to yield occasional patent.
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| A presumed verifiable | D corroborating | G novel |
| B carefully scrutinized | E advancing | H bogus |
| C considered capricious | F debunking | I obsolete |
SET 5 Discrete Question: Hard
【3】4 No other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned reputation for (i)_________ ， and there are few whose moral vision is so imperiously unsparing. Of late, however, the almost belligerent demands of his severe and densely forbidding poetry have taken an improbable turn. This new collection is the poet’s fourth book in six years—an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition, let alone for one of such (ii)_________ over the previous 50 years. Yet for all his newfound (iii)_________ , his poetry is as thorny as ever.
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| A patent accessibility | D penitential austerity | G taciturnity |
| B intrinsic frivolity | E intractable prolixity | H volubility |
| C near impenetrability | F impetuous prodigality | I pellucidity |
【4】5 Managers who think that strong environmental performance will (i)_________ their company’s financial performance often (ii)_________ claims that systems designed to help them manage environmental concerns are valuable tools. By contrast, managers who perceive environmental performance to be (iii)_________ to financial success may view an environmental management system as extraneous. In either situation, and whatever their perceptions, it is a manager’s commitment to achieving environmental improvement rather than the mere presence of a system that determines environmental performance.
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| A eclipse | D uncritically accept | G complementary |
| B bolster | E appropriately acknowledge | H intrinsic |
| C degrade | F hotly dispute | I peripheral |
【5】6 Philosophy, unlike most other subjects, dose not try to extend our knowledge by discovering new information about the world. Instead it tries to deepen our understanding through (i)_________ what is already closest to us—the experiences, thoughts, concepts, and activities that make up our lives but that ordinarily escape our notice precisely because they are so familiar. Philosophy begins by finding(ii)_________ the things that are (iii)_________ .
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| A attainment of | D essentially irrelevant | G most prosaic |
| B rumination on | E utterly mysterious | H somewhat hackneyed |
| C detachment from | F thoroughly commonplace | I refreshingly novel |