GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 28

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.

Though it would be ________ to expect Barnard to have worked out all of the limitations of his experiment, he must be ________ for his neglect of quantitative analysis.

#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?

The hierarchy of medical occupations is in many ways a ________ system; its strata remain ________ and the practitioners in them have very little vertical mobility.

#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?

Noting the murder victim’s flaccid musculature and pear-like figure, she deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some ________ occupation.

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

In Germany her startling powers as a novelist are widely ________, but she is almost unknown in the English speaking world because of the difficulties of ________ her eccentric prose.

#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?

Liberty is not easy, but far better to be an ________ fox, hungry and threatened on its hill, than a ________ canary, safe and secure in its cage.

#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?

Remelting old metal cans rather than making primary aluminum from bauxite ore shipped from overseas saves producers millions of dollars in ________ and production costs.

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

Johnson never ________ to ignore the standards of decent conduct mandated by company policy if ________ compliance with instructions from his superiors enabled him to do so, whatever the effects on his subordinates.

#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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