GRE Text Completion
There is perhaps some truth in that waggish old definition of a scholar—a siren that calls attention to a fog without doing anything to ________ it.
#1
Cryogenic energy storage has the advantage of being suitable in any ________, regardless of geography or geology, factors that may ________ both underground gas storage and pumped hydroelectric storage.
#2
The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor an active one, but what might be called an actively ________ one, eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.
#3
Opponents of the expansion of the market economy, although in ________, continued to constitute ________ political force throughout the century.
#4
Nature’s energy efficiency often ___ human technology: despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light- producing systems whose efficiency ___ the firefly’s system.
#5
Scholars’ sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of “the state” at the time when political science became an academic field quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly ________ mode of study.
#6
Just as astrology was for centuries ________ faith, countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of ________ the professional sciences.
