GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 50

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.

Although the minuet appeared simple, its ________ steps had to be studied very carefully before they could be gracefully ________ in public.

#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?

The results of the experiments performed by Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown were ________ not only because these results challenged old assumptions but also because they called the ________ methodology into question.

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

Which of the following is the BEST fit in the SECOND blank?

Despite the ________ of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize “pop culture” as a key for ________ the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.

#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?

In the seventeenth century, direct flouting of a generally accepted system of values was regarded as ________, even as a sign of madness.

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

Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a _________ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

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

Because outlaws were denied ________ under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal ________.

#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?

Rather than enhancing a country’s security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country’s ________.

#7
Which of the following is the BEST fit in the blank?

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