GRE Text Completion
By idiosyncratically refusing to dismiss an insubordinate member of his staff, the manager not only ________ established policy, but he also ________ his heretofore good chances for promotion.
#1
Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on energy policy, primarily because the policy objectives of various members of Congress rest on such ________ assumptions.
#2
The widespread public shock at the news of the guilty verdict was caused partly by ________ news stories that had ________ acquittal.
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The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth century are evidence that the medieval ________ natural settings had been ________ and that the outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.
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Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ________ since the Cambrian period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been either ________ or decreased diversity.
#5
Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using hormones to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether hormones that ________ in the laboratory can affect ________ organisms, and in predictable ways.
#6
The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell’s own prodigious activity and the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women during the 1870’s ________ any assertion that feminism was ________ in that period.
