GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 36

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.

The ________ of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution; in turn, the new expansion in literacy, as well as cheaper printing, helped to nurture the ________ of popular literature.

#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?

Although ancient tools were ________ preserved, enough have survived to allow us to demonstrate an occasionally interrupted but generally ________ progress through prehistory.

#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?

In parts of the Arctic, the land grades into the land fast ice so ________ that you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the hidden sea.

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

Kagan maintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ________ signs of adolescent anxiety.

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

An investigation that is ________ can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction.

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

Like many eighteenth-century scholars who lived by cultivating those in power, Winckelmann neglected to neutralize, by some ________ gesture of comradeship, the resentment his peers were bound to feel because of his ________ the high and mighty.

#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?

In a ________ society that worships efficiency, it is difficult for a sensitive and idealistic person to make the kinds of ________ decisions that alone spell success as it is defined by such a society.

#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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