GRE Text Completion
Job failure means being fired from a job, being asked to resign, or leaving ________ to protect yourself because you had very strong evidence that one of the first two was ________.
#1
The tone of Jane Carlyle’s letter is guarded, and her feelings are always ________ by the wit and pride that made ________ plea for sympathy impossible for her.
#2
French folktales almost always take place within the basic ________ that correspond to the ________ setting of peasant life: on the one hand, the household and village and on the other, the open road.
#3
Nurturing the Royal Ballet’s artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to ________ development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than ________ it.
#4
Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown problems, New Deal economic strategems became ________ as a result of bureaucratization, their flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their transformation into rigid policies.
#5
Biologists ________ isolated oceanic islands like the Galapagos, because, in such small, laboratory- like settings, the rich hurly-burly of continental plant and animal communities is reduced to a scientifically ________ complexity.
#6
The startling finding that variations in the rate of the Earth’s rotation depend to an ________ degree on the weather has necessitated a complete ________ of the world’s time-keeping methods.
