1、GRE閱讀理解邏輯練習(xí)題1. Patel: Although enrollment in the region's high school has been decreasing for several years, enrollment at the elementary school has grown considerably. Therefore, the regional school board proposes building a new elementary school.Quintero: Another solution would be to convert s

2、ome high school classrooms temporarily into classrooms for elementary school students. Which of the following, if true, most helps to supportQuintero's alternative proposal?(A) Some rooms at the high school cannot be con-verted into rooms suitable for the use of ele-mentary school students.(B) T

3、he cost of building a high school is higher than the cost of building an elementary school.(C) Although the birth rate has not increased, the number of families sending their children to the region's high school has increased markedly.(D) A high school atmosphere could jeopardize the safety and

4、self-confidence of elementary school students.(E) Even before the region's high school population began to decrease, several high school class-rooms rarely needed to be used.2. Peter: More than ever before in Risland, college graduates with science degrees are accepting permanent jobs in other f

5、ields. That just goes to show that scientists in Risland are not being paid enough.Lila: No, it does not. These graduates are not working in science for the simple reason that there are not enough jobs in science in Risland to employ all of these graduates.Which of the following, if true in Risland,

6、 would most undermine the reasoning in Peter's argument?(A) The college graduates with science degrees who are not working in science are currently earning lower salaries than they would earn as scientists.(B) Fewer college students than ever before are receiving degrees in science.(C) The numbe

7、r of jobs in science has steadily risen in the last decade.(D) A significant number of college graduates with science degrees worked at low-paying jobs while they were in college.(E) Every year some recent college graduates with science degrees accept permanent jobs in nonscientific fields.3.Counsel

8、or: Every year a popular newsmagazine pub-lishes a list of United States colleges, ranking them according to an overall numerical score that is a composite of ratings according to sev-eral criteria. However, the overall scores gen-erally should not be used by students as the basis for deciding to wh

9、ich colleges to apply.Which of the following, if true, most helps to justify the counselor's recommendation?(A) The vast majority of people who purchase the magazine in which the list appears are not college-bound students.(B) Colleges that are ranked highest in the magazine's list use this

10、fact in advertisements aimed at attracting students.(C) The rankings seldom change from one year to the next.(D) The significance that particular criteria have for any two students is likely to differ according to the students' differing needs.(E) Some college students who are pleased with their

11、 schools considered the magazine's rankings before deciding which college to attend.4.Excluding purchases by businesses, the average amount spent on a factory-new car has risen 30 per- cent in the last five years. In the average household budget, the proportion spent on car purchases has remaine

12、d unchanged in that period. Therefore the average household budget must have increased by 30 percent over the last five years.Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?(A)The average number of factory-new cars pur-chased per household has remained unchanged over the last f

13、ive years.(B)The average amount spent per car by businesses buying factory-new cars has risen 30 percent in the last five years.(C)The proportion of the average household budgetspent on all car-related expenses has remained unchanged over the last five years.(D)The proportion of the average househol

14、d budget spent on food and housing has remained unchanged over the last five years.(E)The total amount spent nationwide on factory- new cars has increased by 30 percent over the last five years.5. Adelle: The government's program to reduce the unemployment rate in the province of Carthena by enc

15、ouraging job creation has failed, since the rate there has not changed appreciably since the program began a year ago.Fran: But the unemployment rate in Carthena had been rising for three years before the program began, so the program is helping.Which of the following, if true, most strongly counter

16、s Fran's objection to Adelle's argument?(A) The government is advised by expert economists, some of whom specialize in employment issues.(B) The unemployment rate in the province of Carthena has historically been higher than that of the country as a whole.(C) The current government was elect

17、ed by a wide margin, because of its promises to reduce the unemployment rate in Carthena.(D) Around the time the government program began, large numbers of unemployed Carthena residents began leaving the province to look for work elsewhere.(E) The unemployment rate in Carthena had been relatively st

18、able until shortly before the current government took office.6. Soft Drink Manufacturer：Our new children's soft drink, RipeCal, is fortified with calcium. Since calcium is essential for developing healthy bones, drinking RipeCal regularly will help make children healthy. Consumer Advocate：But Ri

19、peCal also contains large amounts of sugar, and regularly consuming large amounts of sugar is unhealthful, especially for children. In responding to the soft drink manufacturer, the consumer advocate does which of the following?(A)Challenges the manufacturer's claim about the nutritional value o

20、f calcium in children's diets(B)Argues that the evidence cited by the manufac-turer, when properly considered, leads to a conclusion opposite to that reached by themanufacturer.(C)Implies that the manufacturer of a product is typically unconcerned with the nutritional value of that product.(D)Qu

21、estions whether a substance that is healthful when eaten in moderation can be unhealthful when eaten in excessive amounts.(E)Presents additional facts that call into question the conclusion drawn by the manufacturer.7.Over a period of several months, researchers attached small lights to the backs of

22、 wetasflightless insects native to New Zealandenabling researchers for the first time to make comprehensive observations of the insects' nighttime activities.Thus, since wetas forage only at night, the researchers' observations will significantly improve knowledge of the normal foraging habi

23、ts of wetas.Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?(A) Researchers were interested only in observing the wetas' foraging habits and so did not keep track of other types of behavior.(B) No pattern of behavior that is exhibited by wetas during the nighttime is also e

24、xhibited by wetas during the daytime.(C)Attaching the small lights to the wetas' backs did not greatly alter the wetas' normal nighttime foraging habits.(D)Wetas typically forage more frequently during the months in which the researchers studied them than they do at other times.(E)The resear

25、chers did not use other observational techniques to supplement their method of using small lights to track the nighttime behavior of wetas.8.People whose bodies cannot produce the substance cytochrome P450 are three times as likely to develop Parkinson's disease, a disease that affects the brain

26、, as are people whose bodies do produce this substance. Since cytochrome P450 protects the brain from toxic chemicals, toxic chemicals probably play a role in the development of Parkinson's disease. Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the argument?(A)It will soon be possible

27、for cytochrome P450 to be synthesized for the treatment of people whose bodies cannot produce this substance.(B)Many people whose bodies are unable to produce cytochrome P450 lack the ability to produce certain other substances as well.(C)Cytochrome P450 has no effect on the brain other than to prot

28、ect it from toxic chemicals.(D)People with Parkinson's disease often exhibit a marked lessening in the severity of their symp- toms when they are treated with dopamine, a chemical produced naturally in the brain.(E)Many people with Parkinson's disease have the ability to produce cytochrome P

29、450 naturally.9.The early universe contained only the lightest elements, hydrogen and helium. Heavier elements, such as carbon, form only in nuclear reactions in stars and are dispersed when the stars explode. A recently discovered gas cloud contained carbon several billion years ago, when the unive

30、rse wasno more than two billion years old.If the statements above are true, which of thefollowing must, on the basis of them, also be true?(A)The earliest stars contained only hydrogen.(B)Some stars were formed before the universe was two billion years old.(C)The carbon in the gas cloud later formed

31、 part of some stars.(D)No stars identified to date are as old as the gas cloud.(E)The gas cloud also contained hydrogen andhelium.10.Sleep deprivation is a known cause of workplace error, and many physicians frequently go without sleep for periods of 24 hours or more. However, few of these physician

32、s have, in the course of a routine examination by a peer, been diagnosed with sleep deprivation.So there is little cause for concern that habitual sleep deprivation will cause widespread physician error. The answer to which of the following questions would be most helpful in evaluating the argument?

33、(A)Do physicians who have been diagnosed with sleep disorders also show signs of other ills not related to sleep deprivation?(B)Is the ability to recognize the symptoms of sleep deprivation in others significantly impaired by habitual sleep deprivation?(C)Do factors other than habitual sleep depriva

34、tion ever lead to errors in the workplace on the part of physicians?(D)Of people who have recently been treated by physicians, what percentage believe that many physicians have occasionally suffered from sleep deprivation?(E)Is the incidence of sleep deprivation higher among physicians than it is am

35、ong other health care workers?11.A list of the fifteen operas most frequently performed in recent times includes no works by the nineteenth- century German composer Richard Wagner. Although music producers tend to produce what audiences want, relative infrequency of performance probably does not ind

36、icate lack of popularity in Wagner's case, since Wagner's operas are notoriously expensive to perform on stage. Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the conclusion of the argument above?(A)The list of most frequently performed operas does not include operas produced by sma

37、ll amateur groups.(B)Some opera companies are backed by patrons who are willing to commit large sums of money in order to enjoy lavish productions.(C)All of the fifteen most frequently performed operas of recent times are works that have been popular for at least 75 years.(D)More recordings have been produced recently of the works of Wagner than of the works of any other composer of opera.(E)Op