Admission Tests GRE General Test 認定 GRE 試験問題:

1. For each item, a manager calculates the ratio of the manufacturing cost to the manufacturing time. Which of the following is closest to the value of the greatest of these eleven ratios, in dollars per minute?

A) 4.0
B) 5.0
C) 3.5
D) 2.5
E) 4.5

2. Business leaders who prefer centralized, pyramidal managerial structures to diversity and competition tend to (i)_________dissent in the decision-making process. But this insistence on (ii)_________can be dangerous in that it deprives decision makers of a full range of alternatives.

A) deprecate
B) foster
C) unanimity'
D) overrate
E) spontaneity
F) ambiguity

3. The term "ragtime opera" was used frequently m the first years of the twentieth century, but more often than not its use was (i)_________. The very idea of "ragtime opera" was viewed as lii)_________: opera was regarded as the highest form of musical art; ragtime was at the opposite pole.

A) an abstraction
B) cliche
C) a self-contradiction
D) unambiguous
E) an exaggeration
F) facetious

4. Robert Philip argues that the advent of recorded music has directed performance style into a search for greater precision and perfection, with a consequent loss of spontaneity and warmth. Various expressive devices once common in classical music have been almost outlawed, including portamento (sliding from one note to another on a stringed instrument), playing the piano with the hands not quite synchronized, and flexibility of tempo.
Philip fully documents these changes. However, other forces independent of recording were also at work. For example, the freedom of tempo so valued by Philip was. in its time, both a necessary expedient and disastrously abused. Recording alone did not cause the reaction against it. although hearing a particularly unintelligent use of it on disc may have reinforced the prejudice.
Hie author would most likely agree with which of the following statements about the "devices"?

A) Increases in the technical proficiency of performers have made their use superfluous.
B) The advent of recorded music had little or no effect on their popularity.
C) They are not useful tools for musical expressivity.
D) Their use cannot usually be detected in a recording, even when they were used in the recorded performance.
E) At least some of them have been used inappropriately in the past.

5. Like paleontologists who interpret timescales from fossil evidence, we infer the history of star formation in the Milky Way galaxy from the heavy-element composition of its stars. According to the big bang theory of the origin of the universe, the first gas clouds-and the first generation of stars formed from them-were composed of pure hydrogen and helium; most heavier elements- iron and calcium, for example-came later, created by explosions of supernovas, massive stars in their death throes. Loaded with heavy elements, material ejected from supernovas enriched the interstellar gas clouds from which the next generation of stars formed, the level of heavy elements increasing with succeeding generations. Because most stars live for many billions of years and because the Milky Way is thus composed of multiple stellar generations, comparing the number of stars of low heavy-element abundance with those of high heavy-element abundance enables astronomers to untangle the history of star formation in the Milky Way.
The passage contains information about each of the following subjects EXCEPT the

A) composition of early interstellar gas clouds
B) time in the history of the galaxy when calcium and iron first appeared
C) age of the Milky Way galaxy relative to the age of other galaxies
D) events that led to the presence of heavier elements in stars
E) composition of early generations of stars

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