GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 11

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.

By divesting himself of all regalities, the former king _________ the consideration that customarily protects monarchs.

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

A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from ________, relating the ________ of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.

#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?

The sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was ________ by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.

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

Industrialists seized economic power only after industry had ________ agriculture as the preeminent form of production; previously such power had ________ land ownership.

#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?

Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their ________.

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

No longer ________ by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual ________ for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.

#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?

People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be ________; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of ________.

#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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