GRE Text Completion
The availability of oxygen is an essential ________ for animal life, while carbon dioxide is equally ________ for plant life.
#1
Prudery actually draws attention to the vice it is supposed to ________; the very act that forbids speech or prohibits sight ________ what is hidden.
#2
After thirty years of television, people have become “speed watchers”; consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience ________.
#3
Compared mathematically to smoking and driving, almost everything else seems relatively risk-free ________ almost nothing seems worth regulating.
#4
Ironically, Carver’s precision in sketching lives on the edge of despair ensures that his stories will sometimes be read too narrowly, much as Dickens’ social-reformer role once caused his broader concerns to be_______.
#5
The demise of the rigorous academic curriculum in high school resulted, in part, from the progressive rhetoric that ________ the study of subjects previously thought ________ as part of school learning.
#6
While some see in practical jokes a wish for mastery in miniature over a world that seems very ________, others believe that the jokes’ purpose is to disrupt, by reducing all transactions to ________.
