McGraw-Hill Education GRE 2019

SECTION 4

Verbal Reasoning

25 questions — 35 minutes

This section includes three types of questions: Reading Comprehension, Text Completion,

and Sentence Equivalence. Read the following directions before you begin the section.

Directions

Reading Comprehension Questions

■ Multiple-Choice Questions—Select One Answer Choice: Select one answer choice

from a list of five choices.

■ Multiple-Choice Questions—Select One or More Answer Choices: From a list of three

answer choices, select all that are correct.

■ Select-in-Passage. Select the sentence in the passage that meets a certain

description.

Text Completion Questions

■ For each blank, select one choice from the corresponding list of choices. Fill all

blanks in the way that best completes the text.

Sentence Equivalence Questions

■ Select the two answer choices that (1) complete the sentence in a way that makes

sense and (2) produce sentences that are similar in meaning.

In Questions 1 to 6, for each blank, select the choice that best completes the text.

1. By taking the mental lives of animals as his subject matter, the author

presents himself with the task of explicating something

that is, in many ways, inaccessible.

A impossible

B meandering

C feckless

D pugnacious

E felicitous

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