GRE Qualitative Practice

Hello sir I am Peter and I am practicing for GRE Exam so will you please provide me some Qualitative Sample Question of Verbal Reasoning to me??

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The GRE Test (Graduate Record Exam) is the standardised test used to get admissions in various graduate schools or business graduate schools in various English speaking countries, especially the United States.


Here as per your demand I am providing you Sample Question of Verbal Reasoning

Policymakers must confront the dilemma that fossil fuels continue to be an indispensable source of energy even though burning them produces atmospheric accumulations of carbon dioxide that increase the likelihood of potentially disastrous global climate change. Currently, technology that would capture carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and sequester it harmlessly underground or undersea instead of releasing it into the atmosphere might double the cost of generating electricity. But because sequestration does not affect the cost of electricity transmission and distribution, delivered prices will rise less, by no more than 50 percent. Research into better technologies for capturing carbon dioxide will undoubtedly lead to lowered costs.
1. The passage implies which of the following about the current cost of generating electricity?

It is higher than it would be if better technologies for capturing carbon dioxide were available.
It is somewhat less than the cost of electricity transmission and distribution.
It constitutes at most half of the delivered price of electricity.
It is dwelt on by policymakers to the exclusion of other costs associated with electricity delivery.
It is not fully recovered by the prices charged directly to electricity consumers.

2. The passage suggests that extensive use of sequestration would, over time, have which of the following consequences?

The burning of fossil fuels would eventually cease to produce atmospheric accumulations of carbon dioxide.
The proportion of the delivered price of electricity due to generation would rise and then decline.
Power plants would consume progressively lower quantities of fossil fuels.

3. Select the sentence that explains why an outcome of sequestration that might have been expected would not occur.


Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embraced the ethos of popular music in his compositions. Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies' sound is distinctively his. Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glass's classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and rhythms with rock music. Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular music. His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.
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4. The passage addresses which of the following issues related to Glass's use of popular elements in his classical compositions?

How it is regarded by listeners who prefer rock to the classics
How it has affected the commercial success of Glass's music
Whether it has contributed to a revival of interest among other composers in using popular elements in their compositions
Whether it has had a detrimental effect on Glass's reputation as a composer of classical music
Whether it has caused certain of Glass's works to be derivative in quality

5. The passage suggests that Glass's work displays which of the following qualities?

A return to the use of popular music in classical compositions
An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical music
A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles

6. Select the sentence that distinguishes two ways of integrating rock and classical music.