GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 48

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.

Since it is now ________ to build the complex central processing unit of a computer on a single silicon chip using photolithography and chemical etching, it seems plausible that other miniature structures might be fabricated in ________ ways.

#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?

Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian ________ later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation.

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

Laws do not ensure social order since laws can always be ________, which makes them ________ unless the authorities have the will and the power to detect and punish wrongdoing.

#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?

Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been ________.

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

Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater ________ their efforts to build a progressive party than the ________ of the progressives already elected to the legislature.

#5
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 strange how words shape our thoughts and trap us at the bottom of deeply ________ canyons of thinking, their imprisoning sides carved out by the ________ of past usage.

#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?

That his intransigence in making decisions ________ no open disagreement from any quarter was well known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of ________ their opinions in casual remarks.

#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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