Melissa remembers the day, back in 2004, when her father went missing while on a regular business trip to Vietnam. “He just never showed up when he was supposed to meet a client,” she recalls.
Repeated phone calls from their home in Singapore to his mobile phone in Vietnam went
- Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester in a foreign country.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
- Structure of an essay in the GRE exam is in the following form:
- Although she admitted that her airport expansion plan had recently collapsed, the governer (1) ... the significance of the failure, pointing out that competing economic development proposals are now more (2) ....
(1) (A) minimized 
(B) touted (C) acknowledged
(2) (D) tenuous (B) complicated (C) important
In one theory, as people learn things throughout the day, connections between neurons get strengthened, but during sleep then all synapses are weakened, tenuous connections are ... and only the strongest bonds could remain.
(1) reinforced
(2) reproduced
(3) replaced
(4) stimulated
(5) severed
