Can you provide me some sample questions for preparation of Graduate Record Examinations Reading Comprehension, so that I can score good marks?

Some sample questions for preparation of Graduate Record Examinations Reading Comprehension are as follows:

1.

Passage

Although the schooling of fish is familiar form of animal social behaviour, how the school is formed and maintained is only beginning to be understood in detail. It had been thought that each fish maintains its position chiefly by means of vision. Our work as shown that, as each fish maintains its position, the lateral line, an organ sensitive to transitory changes in water displacement, is as important as vision. In each species a fish has a “preferred” distance and dangle from its nearest neighbor. The ideal separation and bearing, however, are not maintained rigidly. The result is a probabilistic arrangement that appears like a random aggregation. The tendency of the fish to remain at the preferred distance and angle, however, serves to maintain the structure. Each fish, having established its position, uses its eyes and its lateral lines simultaneously to measure the speed of all the other fish in the school. It then adjusts its own speed to match a weighted average that emphasizes the contribution of nearby fish.

Question 1
According to the passage, the structure of a fish school is dependant upon which of the following.
I. Rigidly formed random aggregations
II. The tendency of each fish to remain at a preferred distance from neighboring fish
III. Measurement of a weighed average by individual fish

A. II only
B. III only
C. I and II only
D. I and III only
E. II and III only

Question 2
Which of the following best describes the author’s attitude toward the theory that the structure of fish schools is maintained primarily through vision?

A. Heated opposition
B. Careful neutrality
C. Considered dissatisfaction
D. Cautious approval
E. Unqualified enthusiasm

Question 3
The passage suggests that, after establishing its position in the school formation, an individual fish will subsequently

A. Maintain its preferred position primarily by visual and auditory means
B. Rigorously avoid changes that would interfere with the overall structure of the school
C. Make conscious sensory readjustments to its position within the school
D. Make unexpected shifts in position only if threatened by external danger
E. Surrender its ability to make quick, instinctive judgements

2.
Questions 1 to 3 are based on this passage.
Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embraced the ethos of popular music in his compositions. Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies' sound is distinctively his. Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glass's classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and rhythms with rock music. Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular music. His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.



Select only one answer choice.
1. The passage addresses which of the following issues related to Glass's use of popular elements in his classical compositions?
1. How it is regarded by listeners who prefer rock to the classics
2. How it has affected the commercial success of Glass's music
3. Whether it has contributed to a revival of interest among other composers in using popular elements in their compositions
4. Whether it has had a detrimental effect on Glass's reputation as a composer of classical music
5. Whether it has caused certain of Glass's works to be derivative in quality


Consider each of the three choices separately and select all that apply.
2. The passage suggests that Glass's work displays which of the following qualities?
1. A return to the use of popular music in classical compositions
2. An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical music
3. A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles
3. Select the sentence that distinguishes two ways of integrating rock and classical music.
3.
Questions 1 to 3 below are based on this passage:
In this excerpt from his editor's introduction to The Best American Essays 2007, David Foster Wallace explains the basic criterion upon which he selected the essays to include in the collection.

I tend, as a reader, to prize and admire clarity, precision, plainness, lucidity, and the sort of magical compression that enriches instead of vitiates. Someone's ability to write this way, especially in nonfiction, fills me with envy, and awe. That might help explain why a fair number of Best American Essay pieces tend to be short, terse, and informal in usage/syntax. Readers who enjoy noodling about genre might welcome the news that several of this year's Best Essays are arguably more like causeries or propos than like essays per se, although one could counterargue that these pieces tend, in their essential pithiness, to be closer to what's historically been meant by 'essay.' Personally, I find taxonomic arguments like this dull and irrelevant. What does seem relevant is to assure you that none of the shorter essays in the collection were included merely because they were short. Limpidity, compactness, and an absence of verbal methane were simply part of what made these pieces valuable; and I think I tried, as the Decider, to use overall value as the prime triage - and filtering mechanism in selecting this year's top essays.

1. The author of the passage is primarily concerned with
A) Cataloguing the formal qualities of writing that coincide with traditional essays.
B) Educating readers about literary genres.
C) Explaining what characteristics of writing interest him most.
D) Defending the criteria by which he chose the essays that appear in the collection.
E) Criticizing essays that do not conform to a prescribed format.


2. The passage supports all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Conciseness and language use are only one aspect of what gives an essay worth.
B) Essays that vary in length, style, and formality are inferior to those that follow strict rules.
C) Taxonomy cannot always apply to writing in the same way it does to scientific concepts.
D) The length of a piece cannot be considered in evaluating the merit of its ideas.
E) Economy of language can give life to an essay rather than destroy it.


3. In context, the author refers to causeries (informal writing or conversation) and propos (exchange of spoken words) primarily in order to
A) Demonstrate that all nonfiction essays are informal in their very nature.
B) Argue that spoken language is superior to written language.
C) Prove that essays, like conversation, are best when pithy and exact.
D) Essays must differ considerably from speech in order to fit the nonfiction essay genre.
E) Explain that an effective essay can have casual elements and need not always follow strict guidelines exactly.