GRE Text Completion
As late as 1891 a speaker assured his audience that since profitable farming was the result of natural ability rather than ________, an education in agriculture was ________.
#1
In spite of the ________ nature of Scotland’s terrain, its main roads are surprisingly free from severe ________.
#2
Walpole’s art collection was huge and fascinating, and his novel The Castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who ________ him as, at best, ________.
#3
Since the author frequently ________ other scholars, his objection to disputes is not only irrelevant but also ________.
#4
Longdale and Stern discovered that mitochondria and chloroplasts ________ a long, identifiable sequence of DNA; such a coincidence could be ________ only by the transfer of DNA between the two systems.
#5
Until the current warming trend exceeds the range of normal climatic fluctuations, there will be, among scientists, considerable ________ the possibility that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 can cause long-term warming effects.
#6
Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the ________ of society, the conventionality of academe.
