GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 41

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.

Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of ________, is the first step in learning to be creative.

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

As serious as she is about the bullfight, she does not allow respect to ________ her sense of whimsy when painting it.

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

No one is ________ about Stephens; he inspires either uncritical adulation or profound ________ in those who work for him.

#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?

Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of population; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no _____ this _____ view of selection.

#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?

The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and ________ such illnesses.

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

During periods of social and cultural stability, many art academies are so firmly controlled by ________ that all real creative work must be done by the ________.

#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?

The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ________ as ________ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.

#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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