Admission Tests Graduate Management Admission Test Sample Questions:

1. The passage suggests that all of the following are true of the cell adhesion molecules mentioned in the highSghted text EXCEPT:

A) They are attached to the surface of cells.
B) They Ink cells Into clusters.
C) They trigger the formation of historegulatory genes.
D) Their chemical structure is varied.
E) Their production is controlled by morphoregutotory genes.

2. With globalization, companies often save on costs by paying lower wages abroad rather than by enhancing the abilities of their domestic workers, and this helps explain why productivity in many countries has been high over the last decade even as, despite year-to-year variation, domestic wages and job creation have barely grown.

A) even as, despite year-to-year variation, domestic wages and job creation have barely grown
B) even though, though there has been year-to-year variation, domestic wages and job creation have barely grown
C) despite year-to-year variation, domestic wages and job creation have barely grown
D) though domestic wages, despite year-to-year variation, and job creation have barely grown
E) even, as despite year-to-year variation domestic wages and job creation have barely grown

3. Government regulations in Nation X require that milk products labeled "organic" come from cows that have access to pasture. Many industrial dairies have begun using the organic label on their products even though their cows spend most of their milk-bearing lives confined to feed lots eating grain. Critics charge that industrial dairy cows spend too little time grazing in pastures for their milk to bear the organic label, but the cows' owners insist that the animals are in good health and show no signs of discontent.
Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to determine whether the industrial dairies' use of the organic label complies with government regulations?

A) The average amount of grass eaten by a cow from an industrial dairy that uses the organic label, as compared to the average amount of grass eaten by a cow from a smaller organic dairy farm
B) The nutritional value of the milk labeled organic that is produced by cows from industrial dairies
C) By what criteria a cow is considered to be "in good health," according to government regulation
D) The effects on milk prices of the wider use of the organic label
E) The meaning of "access to pasture," as stipulated by government regulation

4. Until the Apollo astronauts brought samples of lunar material to Earth during 1966-72, scientists believed that the Moon's surface was largely undisturbed, given its dry, airless environment. Examination of the samples has shown otherwise. Micrometeorites, many smaller than a pencil point, constantly rain onto the Moon at up to
100,000 kilometers per hour, chipping materials or forming microscopic craters. Some melt the soil and vaporize and recondense as glassy coats on other specks of dust. Impacts weld debris into lumps of heterogeneous matter called "agglutinates." Complicated interactions with solar particle streams convert iron into myriads of microscopic iron grains. The regdith-pebbles, sand, and dust-from these erosion processes blankets the Moon. Much of the top layer consists of a complex abrasive dust of microscopic glass shards that can grind machinery and sealing devices and damage human lungs.
The Apollo specimens held by the United States are doled out in ultra-small samples to scientists who demonstrate that nothing else will suffice for high-value experiments. Renewed interest In lunar exploration in the late 1980s meant that materials designed to simulate lunar regolith-simulants-were needed for research to develop schemes for lunar building and procedures for extracting elements such as oxygen found abundantly in regolith. That led to the development of JSC-1 in 1993, made of volcanic cinder cone from a quarry in Arizona in the U.S. The more than 22 metric tons made was in high demand. Efforts are now afoot to manufacture 16 metric tons of JSC-1 A, with 1 ton of fine grains, 14 tons of moderately fine, and 1 ton of coarse.
The information in the passage most strongly supports which of the following claims about the samples of lunar material brought back from the Moon by the Apollo astronauts?
Scientists for whose experiments JSC-1A would suffice are not regarded as entitled to obtain material from the samples.

A) The samples' ingredients included some cinder cone from lunar volcanoes.
B) Only scientists working on the development of simulants of lunar regolith have access to the samples.
C) The samples were of all the major types of lunar regolith.
D) Only one of the samples contained ilmenite.

5. For each of the background colors, the graphic shows the average (arithmetic mean) of the maximum prices that the participants who viewed the item with that background reported that they were willing to pay for the item. Results are shown for bath the auction and the negotiation scenarios.

Assuming the researchers' hypothesized link between offers and aggression is correct, for each of the following background colors select More aggressive if, on average, participants in the negotiation group in the study behaved more aggressively when the product was displayed with that background color than the participants did when the product was displayed with a gray background.
Otherwise, select Not more aggressive.

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