GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS Practice General Test #3 - Answer Key - Sections 2-5

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Answer Key for the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Practice General Test #3, covering Sections 2 through 5. Provides the correct options and completed sentences for verbal reasoning questions, including word-in-context vocabulary selections, sentence completion tasks, and reading/interpretation items. Includes explanations that connect each selected answer to the surrounding context, such as contrasting viewpoints, logical inference, and characterization of risks, evidence, and meaning. Also lists the number of questions per section.

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Answer Key for Section 2 - Verbal Reasoning

Word in Context and Options

Sentence Completion

Answer Key for Section 3 - Verbal Reasoning

GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS® Practice General Test \# 3 Large Print (18 point) Edition Answer Key for Sections 2-5 Copyright © 2023 by ETS. All rights reserved. ETS, the ETS logo, GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS, and GRE are registered trademarks of ETS in the United States and other countries. 835486 The Graduate Record Examinations® Practice General Test \#3 Answer Key for Section 2-Verbal Reasoning 15 Questions 1. A.—polemical Answer in Context: This filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters: her films are known for their aesthetic qualities rather than for their polemical ones. 2. C.—precedence Answer in Context: James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson is generally thought to have established Boswell as the first great modern biographer; yet the claim of precedence could be made for Johnson himself as author of a life of Richard Savage. 3. Blank (i) A.—susceptible to Blank (ii) E.—panned Answer in Context: Critics charge that the regulatory agency, having never defined what constitutes an untenable risk, has grown susceptible to outside influences on that issue: several experts have panned it recently for allowing one power plant to delay an inspection for more than six weeks despite compelling safety concerns. 4. Blank (i) B.—preeminence Blank (ii) F.—beguile Answer in Context: Because we assume the preeminence of natural design, nature can often beguile us: as the Wright brothers noted, the birds initially misled them in almost every particular, but their Flyer eventually succeeded by being the least avian of the early flying machines. 5. Blank (i) C.—banal Blank (ii) D.—consequence Blank (iii) G.—elusive Answer in Context: Historical research makes two somewhat antithetical truths that sounded banal come to seem profound: knowledge of the past comes entirely from written documents, giving written words great consequence, and the more material you uncover, the more elusive your subject becomes. 6. D.—The development will leave sufficient forest to sustain a significant population of deer. 7. Sentence to be completed: Female video artists’ rise to prominence over the past 30 years has the ascent of video as an art form: it is only within the past three decades that video art has attained its current, respected status. Answer A.—matched Answer C.—paralleled 8. Sentence to be completed: The spy’s repeated bungling was, above all else, those who wished to thwart her efforts, since it was so unpredictable as to obscure any pattern that might otherwise lead to her capture. Answer A.—an obstacle to Answer C.—a hindrance to 9. Sentence to be completed: Each member of the journalistic pair served as the other: each refrained from publishing a given piece if the other doubted that it was ready to be printed. Answer A.—a check on Answer D.—a brake on 10. E.—explain why the Spanish use of sugar in chocolate was not a sign of a need to transform chocolate 11. A.—The second (“There is a common belief that Europeans needed to ‘transform’ chocolate to make it appetizing.”) . 12. A.—An article written by a biologist for the general public summarizing current theories about avian and dinosaurian evolution B.—A close examination of available data on avian and dinosaurian evolution 13. A.—dramatic 14. E.—concede that one explanation for the prevalence of a particular portrait type has a basis in fact 15. A.—An eighteenth-century English etiquette manual discussing the social implications of the “hand-in” stance C.—A passage from an eighteenth-century English novel in which a gentleman considers what stance to adopt when his portrait is painted This is the end of the Answer Key for The Graduate Record Examinations Practice Test \#3, Section 2. Answer Key for Section 3-Verbal Reasoning 20 Questions 1. E.—clear Answer in Context: Many find it strange that her writing is thought to be tortuous; her recent essays, although longer than most of her ea

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What document this is and what does it provide?

It provides the GRE Practice General Test #3 answer key, including correct selections and sentence completions for verbal reasoning questions across Sections 2-5.

How are answers presented in the answer key?

Each item lists the correct choice(s) (e.g., letter/option or word completion) and an explanation linking the answer to the given context.

What types of verbal questions are included?

The key includes Word in Context vocabulary items and sentence completion questions, with explanations for why the selected word or phrase fits the passage.

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