GRE Text Completion
Though some of the information the author reveals about Russian life might surprise Americans, her major themes are ________ enough.
#1
In the early twentieth century, the discovery of radium ________ the popular imagination; not only was its discoverer, Marie Curie, idolized, but its market value ________that of the rarest gemstone.
#2
The president’s secretary and his chief aide adored him, and both wrote obsessively ________ personal memoirs about him; unfortunately, however, ________ does not make for true intimacy.
#3
Despite claims that his philosophy can be traced to ________ source, the philosophy in fact draws liberally on several traditions and methodologies and so could justifiably be termed ________.
#4
Du Bois’ foreign trips were the highlight, not the ________, of his travels; he was habitually on the go across and around the United States.
#5
Business forecasts usually prove reasonably accurate when the assumption that the future will be much like the past is _______; in times of major ________ in the business environment, however, forecasts can be dangerously wrong.
#6
It is almost always desirable to increase the yield of a crop if ________ increases are not also necessary in energy, labor, and other inputs of crop production.
