GRE 2025 Verbal Reasoning Sample Paper Set 2 Question Paper with Solutions PDF is available for download. GRE has total 5 sections:
- Analytical Writing (One "Analyze an Issue" task, Alloted time 30 minutes)
- Verbal Reasoning (Two Sections, with 12 questions and 15 questions respectively)
- Quantitative Reasoning (Two Sections, with 12 questions and 15 questions respectively)
The overall test time is about 1 hour and 58 minutes. The Analytical Writing section will always be first.
GRE 2025 Verbal Reasoning Sample Paper Set 2 Question Paper with Solutions PDF
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In the long run, high-technology communications cannot _____ more traditional face-to-face family togetherness, in Ms. Aspinall’s view.
Even in this business, where _____ is part of everyday life, a talent for lying is not something usually found on one’s resume.
A restaurant’s menu is generally reflected in its decor; however, despite this restaurant’s _____ appearance it is pedestrian in the menu it offers.
International financial issues are typically _____ by the United States media because they are too technical to make snappy headlines and too inaccessible to people who lack a background in economics.
While in many ways their personalities could not have been more different—she was ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he was _____—they were surprisingly well suited.
Music critics have consistently defined James P. Johnson as a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920s Harlem ``stride'' style, and an important blues and jazz composer. In addition, however, Johnson was an innovator in classical music, composing symphonic music that incorporated American, and especially African American, traditions.
Such a blend of musical elements was not entirely new: by 1924 both Milhaud and Gershwin had composed classical works that incorporated elements of jazz. Johnson, a serious musician more experienced than most classical composers with jazz, blues, spirituals, and popular music, was particularly suited to expand Milhaud's and Gershwin's experiments. In 1927 he completed his first large-scale work, the blues- and jazz-inspired \textit{Yamekraw}, which included borrowings from spirituals and Johnson's own popular songs. \textit{Yamekraw}, premiered successfully in Carnegie Hall, was a major achievement for Johnson, becoming his most frequently performed extended work. It demonstrated vividly the possibility of assimilating contemporary popular music into the symphonic tradition.
Question 6:
The passage states that Johnson composed all of the following EXCEPT
The author suggests which of the following about most classical composers of the early 1920s?
The author suggests that most critics have
Scholarship on political newspapers and their editors is dominated by the view that as the United States grew, the increasing influence of the press led, ultimately, to the neutral reporting from which we benefit today. Pasley considers this view oversimplified, because neutrality was not a goal of early national newspaper editing, even when editors disingenuously stated that they aimed to tell all sides of a story. Rather, the intensely partisan ideologies represented in newspapers of the early republic led to a clear demarcation between traditional and republican values. The editors responsible for the papers’ content—especially those with republican agendas—began to see themselves as central figures in the development of political consciousness in the United States.
Question 9:
The passage suggests that Pasley would agree with which of the following statements about the political role of newspapers?
The word “disingenuously” appears underlined and in boldface in line 6 of the passage. In the context in which it appears, “disingenuously” most nearly means
The (i)____nature of classical tragedy in Athens belies the modern image of tragedy: in the modern view tragedy is austere and stripped down, its representations of ideological and emotional conflicts so superbly compressed that there’s nothing (ii)___ for time to erode.
(A) unadorned
Murray, whose show of recent paintings and drawings is her best in many years, has been eminent hereabouts for a quarter century, although often regarded with (i)_____, but the most (ii)_____ of these paintings (iii)_____ all doubts.
(A) partiality
Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960s portrayed him as _____ thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
Dramatic literature often _____ the history of a culture in that it takes as its subject matter the important events that have shaped and guided the culture.
In Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry does not reject integration or the economic and moral promise of the American dream; rather, she remains loyal to this dream while looking, realistically, at its incomplete realization. Once we recognize this 5 dual vision, we can accept the play’s ironic nuances as deliberate social commentaries by Hansberry rather than as the “unintentional” irony that Bigsby attributes to the work. Indeed, a curiously persistent refusal to credit Hansberry with a capacity for intentional irony has led some critics to interpret the play’s \underline{\textbf{10 thematic conflicts as mere confusion, contradiction, or eclecticism. Isaacs, for example, cannot easily reconcile Hansberry’s intense concern for her race with her ideal of human
reconciliation. But the play’s complex view of Black self-esteem and human solidarity as compatible is no more “contradictory” than 15 Du Bois’s famous, well-considered ideal of ethnic self-awareness coexisting with human unity, or Fanon’s emphasis on an ideal internationalism that also accommodates national identities and roles.
Question 15:
The author’s primary purpose in the passage is to
The author of the passage would probably consider which of the following judgments to be most similar to the reasoning of the critics described in the underlined and boldfaced sentence (lines 7-11)?
The five sentences in the passage are repeated below, in their original order, with each one assigned a letter. Select and indicate a sentence in the passage in which the author provides examples that reinforce an argument against a critical response cited earlier in the passage.
Select and indicate the best answer from among the five answer choices:
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the support the example lends to the executive’s contention that music publishers have been devastated by the photocopier?
New technologies often begin by (i)_____ what has gone before, and they change the world later. Think how long it took power-using companies to recognize that with electricity they did not need to cluster their machinery around the power source, as in the days of steam. Instead, power could be (ii)____ their processes. In that sense, many of today’s computer networks are still in the steam age. Their full potential remains unrealized.
There has been much hand-wringing about how unprepared American students are for college. Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are unprepared for students. In his analysis, the university culture is largely (i)____ entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp. Understandably, many students view academic life as (ii)___ ritual.
Of course anyone who has ever perused an unmodernized text of Captain Clark’s journals knows that the Captain was one of the most (i)____ spellers ever to write in English, but despite this (ii)_____ orthographical rules, Clark is never unclear.
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Step 1: "Defiant" suggests that Captain Clark deliberately ignored or opposed the conventional spelling rules.
Step 2: "Disregard for" correctly reflects his lack of concern for orthographical norms. Quick Tip: Use "defiant" to describe someone who opposes established norms intentionally, and "disregard for" to show lack of respect for rules or norms.
Select and indicate the best answer from among the five answer choices:
If the information provided is true, which of the following must on the basis of it also be true about FasCorp during the past two years?
A tall tree can transport a hundred gallons of water a day from its roots deep underground to the treetop. Is this movement propelled
by pulling the water from above or pushing it from below? The pull mechanism has long been favored by most scientists. First proposed
5 in the late 1800s, the theory relies on a property of water not commonly associated with fluids: its tensile strength. Instead of
making a clean break, water evaporating from treetops tugs on the remaining water molecules, with that tug extending from molecule
to molecule all the way down to the roots. The tree itself does not 10 actually push or pull; all the energy for lifting water comes from
the sun’s evaporative power.
Question 23:
The passage is primarily concerned with
Consider each of the three choices separately and select all that apply.
Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?
The passage provides information on each of the following except
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