GRE Text Completion
Social scientists have established fairly clear-cut ________ that describe the appropriate behavior of children and adults, but there seems to be ________ about what constitutes appropriate behavior for adolescents.
#1
As long as nations cannot themselves accumulate enough physical power to dominate all others, they must depend on ________.
#2
We realized that John was still young and impressionable, but were nevertheless surprised at his ________.
#3
Although Mount Saint Helens has been more ________ during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the coterminous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption ________ its violent nature.
#4
Changes of fashion and public taste are often ________ and resistant to analysis, and yet they are among the most ________ gauges of the state of the public’s collective consciousness.
#5
The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ________ the ________ to abuse them.
#6
The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an ________ process closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.
