GRE Text Completion
Heavily perfumed white flowers, such as gardenias, were favorites with collectors in the eighteenth century, when ________ was valued much more highly than it is today.
#1
In a most impressive demonstration, Pavarotti sailed through Verdi’s “Celeste Aida”, normally a tenor’s ________, with the casual enthusiasm of a folk singer performing one of his favorite ________.
#2
Dependence on foreign sources of heavy metals, though ________, remains ________ for United States foreign policy.
#3
Cynics believe that people who ________ compliments do so in order to be praised twice.
#4
Although nothing could be further from the truth, freight railroads have been ________ of ________ the nation’s shift from oil to coal by charging exorbitant fees to transport coal.
#5
Although the revelation that one of the contestants was a friend left the judge open to charges of lack of ________, the judge remained adamant in her assertion that acquaintance did not necessarily imply ________.
#6
Within the next decade, sophisticated telescopes now orbiting the Earth will determine whether the continents really are moving, ________ the incipient ________ among geologists about the validity of the theory of continental drift.
