GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 46

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.

In the current research program, new varieties of apple trees are evaluated under different agricultural ________ for tree size, bloom density, fruit size, ________ to various soils, and resistance to pests and disease.

#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?

At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that ________ was very near the surface.

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

Even though in today’s Soviet Union the ________ the Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank-and-file clergy still have little ________ to practice their religion.

#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?

The proponents of recombinant DNA research have decided to ________ federal regulation of their work; they hope that by making this compromise they can forestall proposed state and local controls that might be even stiffer.

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

It is to the novelist’s credit that all of presented realistically, without any ________ or playful supernatural tricks.

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

Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to ________ theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, where productive approaches have long been highly ________.

#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?

Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical ________ or a brilliant ________ blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.

#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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