GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 27

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.

Psychology has slowly evolved into an ________ scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.

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

A major goal of law, to deter potential criminals by punishing wrongdoers, is not served when the penalty is so seldom invoked that it ________ to be a _______ threat.

#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?

When people are happy, they tend to give ________ interpretations of events they witness: the eye of the beholder is ________ by the emotions of the beholder.

#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?

Even those who disagreed with Carmen’s views rarely faulted her for expressing them, for the positions she took were as ________ as they were controversial.

#4
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

New research on technology and public policy focuses on how seemingly ________ design features generally over looked in most analyses of public works projects or industrial machinery, actually ________ social choices of profound significance.

#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?

Paradoxically, Robinson’s excessive denials of the worth of early works of science fiction suggest that she has become quite ________ them.

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

Cezanne’s delicate watercolor sketches often served as ________ or a subject, a way of gathering fuller knowledge before the artist’s final engagement of the subject in an oil painting.

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

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