GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 51

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.

The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather observations shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous record-keepers, and because of this, can claim humanity’s longest continuous ________ of natural events.

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

Because many of the minerals found on the clean floor are still ________ on land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet to become a ________ enterprise.

#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?

The valedictory address, as it has developed in American colleges and universities over the years, has become a very strict form, a literary ________ that permits very little ________.

#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?

A human being is quite ________ creature, for the gloss of rationality that covers his or her fears and ________ is thin and often easily breached.

#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?

Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction to his poetry, even now only a few independent observers ________ his works.

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

Unlike philosophers who constructed theoretically ideal states, she built a theory based on ________; thus, although her constructs may have been inelegant, they were ________ sound.

#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?

Once a duckling has identified a parent, then instinctive bond becomes a powerful ________ for additional learning since, by ________ the parent, the duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted.

#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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