GRE Text Completion
It was a war the queen and her more prudent counselors wished to ________ if they could and were determined in any event to ________ as long as possible.
#1
Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the data accumulated are not directly ________ to environmental questions; thus a new program of research specifically addressing such questions is ________.
#2
Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by their ________ environment, human beings are products of a culture accumulated over centuries, yet one that is constantly being ________ by massive infusions of new information from everywhere.
#3
Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having ________ the conflicting elements of her life.
#4
In their preface, the collection’s editors plead that certain of the important articles they ________ were published too recently for inclusion, but in the case of many such articles, this ________ is not valid.
#5
The labor union and the company’s management, despite their long history of unfailingly acerbic disagreement on nearly every issue, have nevertheless reached an unexpectedly ________, albeit still tentative, agreement on next year’s contract.
#6
In response to the follies of today’s commercial and political worlds, the author does not ________ inflamed indignation, but rather ________ the detachment and smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit.
