GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 23

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.

By idiosyncratically refusing to dismiss an insubordinate member of his staff, the manager not only ________ established policy, but he also ________ his heretofore good chances for promotion.

#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?

Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on energy policy, primarily because the policy objectives of various members of Congress rest on such ________ assumptions.

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

The widespread public shock at the news of the guilty verdict was caused partly by ________ news stories that had ________ acquittal.

#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?

The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth century are evidence that the medieval ________ natural settings had been ________ and that the outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.

#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?

Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ________ since the Cambrian period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been either ________ or decreased diversity.

#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?

Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using hormones to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether hormones that ________ in the laboratory can affect ________ organisms, and in predictable ways.

#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 astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell’s own prodigious activity and the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women during the 1870’s ________ any assertion that feminism was ________ in that period.

#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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