Admission Test Section One : Verbal - GRE-Verbal Exam Practice Test

Always read the meter dials from the right to the left. This procedure is much easier, especially if any of
the dial hands are near the zero mark. If the meter has two dials, and one is smaller than the other, it is
not imperative to read the smaller dial since it only registers a small amount. Read the dial at the right first.
As the dial turns clockwise, always record the figure the pointer has just passed. Read the next dial to the
left and record the figure it has just passed. Continue recording the figures on the dials from right to left.
When finished, mark off the number of units recorded. Dials on water and gas meters usually indicate the
amount each dial records.
Always read the meter dials-

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OCCLUDE:

Charles A. Lindbergh is remembered as the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic,
in 1927. This feat, when Lindbergh was only twenty-five years old, assured him a lifetime of fame and
public attention. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was more interested in flying airplanes than he was in
studying. He dropped out of the University of Wisconsin after two years to earn a living performing
daredevil airplane stunts at country fairs. Two years later, he joined the United States Army so that he
could go to the Army Air Service flight-training school. After completing his training, he was hired to fly
mail between St. Louis and Chicago. Then came the historic flight across the Atlantic. In 1919, a New
York City hotel owner offered a prize of $25,000 to the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.
Nine St. Louis business leaders helped pay for the plane Lindbergh designed especially for the flight.
Lindbergh tested the plane by flying it from San Diego to New York, with an overnight stop in St. Louis.
The flight took only 20 hours and 21 minutes, a transcontinental record. Nine days later, on May 20,1927,
Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York, at 7:52 A. M. He landed at Paris on May 21 at 10:21 P. M.
He had flown more than 3,600 miles in less than thirty four hours. His flight made news around the world.
He was given awards and parades everywhere he went. He was presented with the U. S. Congressional
Medal of Honor and the first Distinguished Flying Cross. For a long time, Lindbergh toured the world as a
U. S. goodwill ambassador. He met his future wife, Anne Morrow, in Mexico, where her father was the
United States ambassador. During the 1930s, Charles and Anne Lindbergh worked for various airline
companies, charting new commercial air routes. In 1931, for a major airline, they charted a new route from
the east coast of the United States to the Orient. The shortest, most efficient route was a great curve
across Canada, over Alaska, and down to China and Japan. Most pilots familiar with the Arctic did not
believe that such a route was possible. The Lindberghs took on the task of proving that it was. They
arranged for fuel and supplies to be set out along the route. On July 29, they took off from Long Island in a
specially equipped small seaplane. They flew by day and each night landed on a lake or a river and
camped. Near Nome, Alaska, they had their first serious emergency. Out of daylight and nearly out of fuel,
they were forced down in a small ocean inlet. In the next morning's light, they discovered they had landed
on barely three feet of water. On September 19, after two more emergency landings and numerous close
calls, they landed in China with the maps for a safe airline passenger route. Even while actively engaged
as a pioneering flier, Lindbergh was also working as an engineer.
In 1935, he and Dr. Alexis Carrel were given a patent for an artificial heart. During World War I in the
1 940s, Lindbergh served as a civilian technical advisor in aviation. Although he was a civilian, he flew
over fifty combat missions in the Pacific. In the 1950s, Lindbergh helped design the famous 747 jet airliner.
In the late 1960s, he spoke widely on conservation issues. He died August 1974, having lived through
aviation history from the time of the first powered flight to the first steps on the moon and having
influenced a big part of that history himself.
When did the Lindberghs map an air route to China?

The _______ that computers are _______ educational tools has led many parents to believe that children
don't need to be monitored when using the computer, as they do when watching television.

RAIL:

SKI : SNOW

Americans have always been interested in their Presidents' wives. Many First Ladies have been
remembered because of the ways they have influenced their husbands. Other First Ladies have made the
history books on their own. At least two First Ladies, Bess Truman and Lady Bird Johnson, made it their
business to send signals during their husbands' speeches. When Lady Bird Johnson thought her husband
was talking too long, she wrote a note and sent it up to the platform. It read, "It's time to stop!" And he did.
Once Bess Truman didn't like what her husband was saying on television, so she phoned him and said," If
you can't talk more politely than that in public, you come right home." Abigail Fillmore and Eliza Johnson
actually taught their husbands, Millard Fillmore and Andrew Johnson, the thirteenth and seventeenth
Presidents. A schoolteacher, Abigail eventually married her pupil, Millard. When Eliza Johnson married
Andrew, he could not read or write, so she taught him herself. It was First Lady Helen Taft's idea to plant
the famous cherry trees in Washington, D. C. Each spring these blossoming trees attract thousands of
visitors to the nation's capital. Mrs. Taft also influenced the male members of her family and the White
House staff in a strange way: she convinced them to shave off their beards! Shortly after President Wilson
suffered a stroke, Edith Wilson unofficially took over most of the duties of the Presidency until the end of
her husband's term. Earlier, during World War I, Mrs. Wilson had had sheep brought onto the White
House lawn to eat the grass. The sheep not only kept the lawn mowed but provided wool for an auction
sponsored by the First Lady. Almost $100,000 was raised for the Red Cross. Dolly
Madison saw to it that a magnificent painting of George Washington was not destroyed during the War of
1 812. As the British marched toward Washington, D. C., she remained behind to rescue the painting,
even after the guards had left. The painting is the only object from the original White House that was not
burned. One of the most famous First Ladies was Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt. She was active in political and social causes throughout her husband's tenure in office. After
his death, she became famous for her humanitarian work in the United Nations. She made life better for
thousands of needy people around the world.
What is the main idea of this passage?

Societal progress usually comes about through (i)_______ and challenge- that is, when people point out
the mistakes of those who wield power; (ii)_______, without our challenging the mistaken notions of
established institutions, political (iii)_______ and tyranny would go unchecked.

SCALE : TONE :

The government's _______ clinical study requirements for new drugs do not _______ pharmaceutical
firms when it comes to research and development, chiefly because of the profit potential afforded by
patent protection.

The main advantage of inertial guidance systems in modern aircraft, spacecraft, and submarines is that
they are _______ and are able to function without _______ data.

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