历年真题：GRE试题8

   

　　Question 20——22

　　A developer is planning to build a housing complex on an empty tract of land.Exactly seven different styles of houses ——Q,R,S,T,W,X,and Z——will bebuild in the complex.The complex will contain several blocks,and the developer plans to put houses of at least three different styles on each block.The developer will build the complex according to the following rules:

　　Any block that has style Z on it must also have style W on it.

　　Any block adjacent to one that has on it both style S and style X must have on it

　　style Tand style Z.

　　No block adjacent to one that has on it both style R and style Z can have on it

　　either style T or style W.

　　No block can have on it both style S and style Q.

　　20.Which of the following can be the complete selection of house style on a block?

　　(A)Q,R,S

　　(B)Q,S,X

　　(C)R,T,Z

　　(D)S,W,Z

　　(E)T,X,Z

　　21.Which of the following can be the complete selection of house style on a block?

　　(A)Q

　　(B)R

　　(C)S

　　(D)W

　　(E)X

　　22.Which of the following can be the complete selection of house style for a block that is adjacent to exactly one block,if that one block has on it style S,T, W,and X only?

　　(A)S,T,and X

　　(B)T,X,and Z

　　(C)R,S,X,and Z

　　(D)S,T,W,and X

　　(E)T,W,X,and Z

　　23.When an osprey(a fish-eating hawk) returna from fishing to its nesting area with a fish like an alewife, a pollack,or a smelt,other ospreys will retrace its flight path in hopes of good fishing.There is seldom such a response if the first bird brings back a winter flounder.Yet ospreys feed on winter flounder just as ready as od any other fish.

　　Which of the following,if true,contributes most to an explanation of the fishing behavior of ospreys as it is described above?

　　(A)Ospreys are seldom able to catch alewives,pollack,or smelt.

　　(B)Alewives,pollack,and smalt move in schools,but winter flounder do not.

　　(C)Winter flounder prefer shallower waters than do alewives,pollack,or smelt.

　　(D)Winter flounder prefer and pollack exhibit protective coloration,but

　　alewives and smelt do not.

　　(E)Ospreys that live in nesting area are especially successful fishers.

　　24.A recent study of an insurance company's underwriters indicate that those who worked in pleasant physical surroundings were 25 percent more productive thantheir peers in unpleasant physical surroundings.Objective criteria for evaluating job performance included caseload and complexity of cases.This shows that improving workers' enviroments increases those workers'productivity.

　　Which of the following,if true,most seriously weakens the conclusion above?

　　(A)On average,less-productive employees spend no fewer hours per day at

　　their workstations thando their more-productive peers.

　　(B)Unpleasant surroundings give employees less motivation to work hard than more pleasant surroundings do.

　　(C)The more-productive employees are generally rewarded with pleasant office space.

　　(D)More-productive employees do not work any more hours than their less-productive peers.

　　(E)Peer pressure discourages employees in crowed,unpleasant surroundings from making phone calls to their own family members during work time.

　　25.In a certain country,individual tend to change their political affiliation readily from one political party to another.In the past the Union party grew larger because of this tendency,but although most of those who change to a new party affiliation change to the Union party, the Union party has remained about the same size in recent years.

　　Which of the following,if true,best helps to explain the change in the growth pattern of the Union party mentioned above?

　　(A)The economy has been prospering recently,and many of those who change party affiliation are upwardly mobile and properous.

　　(B)In recent yeas those who were previously nonaffiliated have tended to join the Union party if they joined any party at all.

　　(C)The percentage of voting-age citizens who change political party affiliation each year has remained constant,and the number of voting-age citizens has remained the same.

　　(D)The percentage of voting-age citizens who are affiliated with any political party has increased over the last ten years.

　　(E)Many members of the Unipn party have abandoned all political party affiliation in recent years.