GRE Text Completion
Although the feeding activities of whales and walruses give the seafloor of the Bering Shelf a devastated appearance, these activities seem to be actually ________ to the area, ________ its productivity.
#1
In an age without radio or recordings, an age ________ by print, fiction gained its greatest ascendancy.
#2
Scientist’ pristine reputation as devotees of the disinterested pursuit of truth has been _____ by recent evidence that some scientists have deliberately ____ experimental results to further their own careers.
#3
Although Johnson’s and Smith’s initial fascination with the fortunes of those jockeying for power in the law firm ____ after a few months, the two paid sufficient attention to determine who their lunch partner should be.
#4
A war, even if fought for individual liberty and democratic rights, usually requires that these principles be ________, for they are ________ the regimentation and discipline necessary for military efficiency.
#5
To test the ________ of borrowing from one field of study to enrich another, simply investigate the extent to which terms from the one may, without forcing, be ________ the other.
#6
The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he criticized Dickens’ Oliver Twist for making the characters in the thieves’ kitchen so ________.
