GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 18

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.

Job failure means being fired from a job, being asked to resign, or leaving ________ to protect yourself because you had very strong evidence that one of the first two was ________.

#1
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 tone of Jane Carlyle’s letter is guarded, and her feelings are always ________ by the wit and pride that made ________ plea for sympathy impossible for her.

#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?

French folktales almost always take place within the basic ________ that correspond to the ________ setting of peasant life: on the one hand, the household and village and on the other, the open road.

#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?

Nurturing the Royal Ballet’s artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to ________ development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than ________ it.

#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?

Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown problems, New Deal economic strategems became ________ as a result of bureaucratization, their flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their transformation into rigid policies.

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

Biologists ________ isolated oceanic islands like the Galapagos, because, in such small, laboratory- like settings, the rich hurly-burly of continental plant and animal communities is reduced to a scientifically ________ complexity.

#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?

The startling finding that variations in the rate of the Earth’s rotation depend to an ________ degree on the weather has necessitated a complete ________ of the world’s time-keeping methods.

#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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