GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 12

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.

Animals that have tasted unpalatable plants tend to ________ them afterward on the basis of their most conspicuous features, such as their flowers.

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

As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only ________ government records to see ________ evidence of the failure of such opinions in many fields.

#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?

In scientific inquiry, it becomes a matter of duty to expose a ________ hypothesis to every possible kind of ________.

#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?

Charlotte Salomon’s biography is a reminder that the currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by ________ public events, retain their hold on the ________ recording them.

#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?

Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very ________, have certain characteristics in common.

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

Although Johnson _____ great enthusiasm for his employees’ project, in reality his interest in the project was so ________ as to be almost non-existent.

#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?

Not all the indicators necessary to convey the effect of depth in a picture work simultaneously; the picture’s illusion of ________ three-dimensional appearance must therefore result from the viewer’s integration of various indicators perceived ________.

#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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