GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 24

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.

Only by ignoring decades of mismanagement and inefficiency could investors conclude that a fresh infusion of cash would provide anything more than a ________ solution to the company’s financial woes.

#1
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

Although the discovery of antibiotics led to great advances in clinical practice, it did not represent a ________ bacterial illness, for there are some bacteria that cannot be _______treated with antibiotics.

#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?

A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more ________ the ideas.

#3
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

Jones was unable to recognize the contradictions in his attitudes that were obvious to everyone else; even the hint of an untruth was________ to him, but he ________ serious trouble by always cheating on his taxes.

#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?

Even though the general’s carefully qualified public statement could hardly be ________, some people took ________ it.

#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?

Though feminist in its implications, Yvonne Rainer’s 1974 film ________ the filmmaker’s active involvement in feminist politics.

#6
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

The chances that a species will ________ are reduced if any vital function is restricted to a single kind of organ; ________ by itself possesses an enormous survival advantage.

#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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