GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 49

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.

Hydrogen is the ________ element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.

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

Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural ________ doing so.

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

It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ________.

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

The primary criterion for ________ a school is its recent performance: critics are _________ to extend credit for earlier victories.

#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?

Number theory is rich in problems of an especially ________ sort: they are tantalizingly simple to state but ________ difficult to solve.

#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?

In failing to see that the justice’s pronouncement merely ________ previous decisions rather than actually establishing a precedent, the novice law clerk ________ the scope of the justice’s judgment.

#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?

When theories formerly considered to be ________ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ________.

#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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