GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 14

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 spellings of many Old English words have been ________ in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed.

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

The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly ________ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.

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

For centuries animals have been used as ________ for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans.

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

Social tensions among adult factions can be ________ by politics, but adolescents and children have no such ________ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.

#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?

The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ________ between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are ________ to the maintenance of community.

#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?

Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as ________ thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.

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

To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too ________: any effective intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to ________ thought processes that did not originate with them.

#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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