GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 52

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.

Nearly two-thirds of the country’s mushroom crop is produced by 160 growers in a single county, the greatest ________ growers anywhere.

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

The disjunction between educational objectives that stress independence and individuality and those that emphasize obedience to rules and cooperation with others reflects a ________ that arises from the values on which these objectives are based.

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

It is ________ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to eliminate a totally ________ disease.

#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?

Dramatic literature often ________ the history of a culture in that it takes as its subject matter the important events that have shaped and guided the culture.

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

The legislators of 1563 realized the ________ of trying to regulate the flow of labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part of the statute dealt with establishing wages.

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

Scientists who are on the cutting edge of research must often violate common sense and make seemingly ________ assumptions because existing theories simply do not ________ newly observed phenomena.

#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?

The ________ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class Rousseau was all the more because he showed so little respect for them.

#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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