Reading-Environmental DNA Evidence Suggests the Loch Ness Monster Could Be a Giant Eel

Since the first supposed monster sighting at Loch Ness was recorded in the 6th century, people have been searching for logical explanations. Sturgeons, trees, and even elephant trunks have all been blamed,

GRE-two-answer-sample1

- 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

 

Reading - Honey Bees Can Understand the Concept of Zero

The concept of zero—less than one, nothing, nada—is deceptively complex. The first placeholder zero dates back to around 300 BCE, and the notion didn’t make its way to Western Europe until the 12th century. It takes children until preschool to wrap their brains around the concept. But scientists in Australia recently discovered a new animal capable of understanding zero: the honey bee. A 2018 study finds that insects can be taught the concept of nothing.

GRE-question-three-answer-sample1

Any population increase beyond a certain level (1) ... greater (2) ... vegetable foods; thus, the ability of a society to choose meat over cereals always arises, from (3) ... the numbers of people.

(1) (A) necessitates  (B) caters to (C) eludes

(2) (D) gratification of (E) recourse to  (F) cultivation

(3) (G) replenishing (H) concealing  (I) limiting 

Reviewing Learned Words

(1) His gloom was now compounded by the failing mark on his geometry now.

(gloom): a feeling of great sadness and lack of hope

 - (Example) a time of high unemployment and economic gloom

(2) The annals of sports are replete with the names of great black athletes.

(3) One of the great paradoxes of American life is that through minority groups have suffered injustices, nowhere in the world have so many varied groups lived together so harmoniously.

(4) A tinge of garlic is all that's necessary for most recipes.

(5) A cruel king would not allow the prince to enter his realm restricting him to the forest, which abounded with wild animals.