GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 35

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.

Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because, although it ________ some problems, it also produced new________.

#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?

During a period of protracted illness, the sick can become infirm, ________ both the strength to work and many of the specific skills they once possessed.

#2
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history; consequently, any historical writing that takes no cognizance of ________ facts is ________ flawed.

#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?

It is puzzling to observe that Jones’s novel has recently been criticized for its ________ structure, since commentators have traditionally argued that its most obvious ________ is its relentlessly rigid, indeed schematic, framework.

#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?

It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior; the character of the codes, on the other hand, can often be ________.

#5
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

The characterization of historical analysis as a form of fiction is not likely to be received ________ by either historians or literary critics, who agree that history and fiction deal with ________ orders of experience.

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

Which of the following is the BEST fit in the SECOND blank?

For some time now, ________ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom.

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

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