GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 1

GRE Text Completion
Directions

The purpose of the Text Completion questions is to measure the ability to recognize words or phrases that both logically and stylistically complete the meaning of a sentence.

In deciding which of words or sets of words can best be substituted for blank spaces in a sentence, one must analyze the relationships among the component parts of the incomplete sentence.

One must consider each answer choice and decide which completes the sentence in such a way that the sentence has a logically satisfying meaning and can be read as a stylistically integrated whole.

Nonviolent demonstrations often create such tensions that a community that has constantly refused to ______ its injustices is forced to correct them: the injustices can no longer be ______.

#1

Which of the following is the BEST fit in the FIRST blank?

Which of the following is the BEST fit in the SECOND blank?

Since 1813 reaction to Jane Austen’s novels has oscillated between ______ and condescension; but in general later writers have esteemed her works more highly than did most of her literary ______.

#2
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the FIRST blank?

Which of the following is the BEST fit in the SECOND blank?

There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been ________ to the extent that they no longer ________ ecologists.

#3
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the FIRST blank?

Which of the following is the BEST fit in the SECOND blank?

Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the National Institutes of Health, human genes are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which ________ treatments are unsatisfactory.

#4
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

It was her view that the country’s problems had been ________ by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.

#5
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible ________: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.

#6
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

The actual ________ of Wilson’s position was always ________ by his refusal to compromise after having initially agreed to negotiate a settlement.

#7
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the FIRST blank?

Which of the following is the BEST fit in the SECOND blank?

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