GRE Big Book Text Completion Test 6

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 discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to ________ its significance.

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

Their mutual teasing seemed ________, but in fact it ________ a long-standing hostility.

#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?

Noting that few employees showed any ________ for complying with the corporation’s new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be ________, at best.

#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?

It has been argued that politics as ________, whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.

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

In many science fiction films, the opposition of good and evil is portrayed as a ________ between technology, which is ________, and the errant will of a depraved intellectual.

#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?

Although scientists claim that the seemingly ________ language of their reports is more precise than the figurative language of fiction, the language of science, like all language, is inherently ________.

#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?

In recent decades the idea that Cezanne influenced Cubism has been caught in the ________ between art historians who credit Braque with its invention and those who________ Picasso.

#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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