GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 10

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.

The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be ________ further education.

#1
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ________ than a similar article intended for ________ use.

#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?

Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the ________of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its ________ before he acted.

#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?

Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: he ________ childhood processes from adult ________.

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

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

While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers – the incomprehension of her colleagues – octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to _____ the triumph of her once _____ scientific theories.

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

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

Broadway audiences have become inured to ________ and so ________ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.

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

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

Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ________ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.

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

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