GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 22

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 functions of the hands, eyes, and brain are so ________ that using the hands during early childhood helps to promote the child’s entire ________ development.

#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?

Before 1500 North America was inhabited by more than 300 cultural groups, each with different customs, social structures, world views, and languages; such diversity ________ the existence of a single Native American culture.

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

That dealers ________ enough to nurture a young modern painter’s career rather than plunder it exist is not impossible, but the public’s ________ appetite for modern art makes such dealers less and less likely.

#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?

In the absence of any ________ caused by danger, hardship, or even cultural difference, most utopian communities deteriorate into ________ but enervating backwaters.

#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?

As Juanita argued, this new code of conduct is laughable; its principles are either ________, offering no wisdom but the obvious, or are so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action ________.

#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?

Histocompatibility antigens that attack foreign tissue in the body cannot have been ________ through evolution expressly to ________ organ transplantation; on the contrary, they have been found to facilitate many essential biological functions.

#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?

Their air of cheerful self-sacrifice and endless complaisance won them undeserved praise, for their seeming gallantry was wholly motivated by a ________ wish to avoid conflict of any sort.

#7
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

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