GRE Text Completion
Agronomists are increasingly worried about “desertification,” the phenomenon that is turning many of the world’s ________ fields and pastures into ________ wastelands, unable to support the people living on them.
#1
Old beliefs die hard: even when jobs became _________ the long-standing fear that unemployment could return at a moment’s notice _________.
#2
Intellectual ________ and flight from boredom have caused him to rush pell-mell into situations that less spirits might hesitate to approach.
#3
Science advances in ________ spiral in that each new conceptual scheme—the phenomena explained by its predecessors and adds to those explanations.
#4
Politeness is not a ________ attribute of human behavior, but rather a central virtue, one whose very existence is increasingly being ________ by the faddish requirement to “speak one’s mind.”
#5
The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for, hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel; it was ________ by the perspective.
#6
Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain ____.
