GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 13

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.

Her ________ should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.

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

Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases; consequently, hereditary diseases that are ________ would be expected to be very ________, but, surprisingly, they are not.

#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?

Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been ________ by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy’s underlying assumptions.

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

During the opera’s most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra’s conductor seemed ________, without necessary relation to what had gone before.

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

In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears ________, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ________ creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.

#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?

During the 1960’s assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution to widespread ________ it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose ________ was both imminent and welcome.

#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?

Documenting science’s ________ philosophy would be ________, since it is almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations.

#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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