Text Completion Practice Questions
61. 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.
(A) accused … impeding
(B) proud … accelerating
(C) guilty … delaying
(D) conscious … contributing to
(E) wary … interfering with
62. 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 .
(A) prudence … tolerance
(B) detachment … foreknowledge
(C) exoneration … impropriety
(D) prejudice … preference
(E) disinterestedness … partiality
63. 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.
(A) obviating … consensus
(B) forestalling … rift
(C) escalating … debates
(D) engendering … speculation
(E) resolving … rumors
64. The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be further education.
(A) entitled to
(B) striving for
(C) deprived of
(D) uninterested in
(E) participating in
65. In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more than a similar article intended for use.
(A) delicately … vocational
(B) colorfully … festive
(C) creatively … religious
(D) subtly … commercial
(E) lavishly … everyday
66. Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its before he acted.
(A) rewards … chastisement
(B) balm … eloquence
(C) reproaches … promptings
(D) ridicule … allure
(E) qualms … atonement
67. Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: he childhood processes from adult .
(A) reconstructed … memory
(B) condoned … experience
(C) incorporated … behavior
(D) released … monotony
(E) inferred … anticipation
68. While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers – the incomprehension of her colleagues – octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to the triumph of her once scientific theories.
(A) descry innovative
(B) regret insignificant
(C) perpetuate tentative
(D) enjoy authoritative
(E) savor heterodox
69. Broadway audiences have become inured to and so to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
(A) sentimentality … reluctant
(B) condescension … disinclined
(C) histrionics … unlikely
(D) cleverness … eager
(E) mediocrity … desperate
70. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
(A) extrapolate
(B) transcribe
(C) complicate
(D) amplify
(E) manage
71. By divesting himself of all regalities, the former king the consideration that customarily protects monarchs.
(A) merited
(B) forfeited
(C) debased
(D) concealed
(E) extended
72. A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from , relating the of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.
(A) age … ancestry
(B) classification … appearance
(C) size … movement
(D) structure … behavior
(E) location … habitat
73. The sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.
(A) banal
(B) heretical
(C) unproven
(D) complex
(E) superficial
74. Industrialists seized economic power only after industry had agriculture as the preeminent form of production; previously such power had land ownership.
(A) sabotaged … threatened
(B) overtaken … produced
(C) toppled … culminated in
(D) joined … relied on
(E) supplanted … resided in
75. Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their .
(A) insight
(B) obstinacy
(C) introspection
(D) tolerance
(E) credulity
76. No longer by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
(A) satisfied … reasons
(B) sustained … substitutes
(C) reassured … justifications
(D) hampered … equivalents
(E) restricted … parallels
77. People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be ; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of .
(A) depraved … hesitation
(B) cruel … effortlessness
(C) wicked … indolence
(D) unjust … boredom
(E) iniquitous … impiety
78. Animals that have tasted unpalatable plants tend to them afterward on the basis of their most conspicuous features, such as their flowers.
(A) recognize
(B) hoard
(C) trample
(D) retrieve
(E) approach
79. As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only government records to see evidence of the failure of such opinions in many fields.
(A) inspect … questionable
(B) retain … circumstantial
(C) distribute … possible
(D) consult … strong
(E) evaluate … problematic
80. In scientific inquiry, it becomes a matter of duty to expose a hypothesis to every possible kind of .
(A) tentative … examination
(B) debatable … approximation
(C) well-established … rationalization
(D) logical … elaboration
(E) suspect … correlation
81. Charlotte Salomon’s biography is a reminder that the currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by public events, retain their hold on the _ recording them.
(A) transitory … culture
(B) dramatic … majority
(C) overpowering … individual
(D) conventional … audience
(E) relentless … institution
82. Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very _ , have certain characteristics in common.
(A) relevant
(B) elementary
(C) abstract
(D) diverse
(E) controversial
83. Although Johnson great enthusiasm for his employees’ project, in reality his interest in the project was so as to be almost non-existent.
(A) generated … redundant
(B) displayed … preemptive
(C) expected … indiscriminate
(D) feigned … perfunctory
(E) demanded … dispassionate
84. Not all the indicators necessary to convey the effect of depth in a picture work simultaneously; the picture’s illusion of three-dimensional appearance must therefore result from the viewer’s integration of various indicators perceived .
(A) imitative … coincidentally
(B) uniform … successively
(C) temporary … comprehensively
(D) expressive … sympathetically
(E) schematic … passively
85. Her should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.
(A) intemperance
(B) intolerance
(C) apprehension
(D) diffidence
(E) frugality
86. Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases; consequently, hereditary diseases that are would be expected to be very , but, surprisingly, they are not.
(A) lethal … rare
(B) untreated … dangerous
(C) unusual … refractory
(D) new … perplexing
(E) widespread … acute
87. Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy’s underlying assumptions.
(A) supplemented
(B) undermined
(C) wasted
(D) diverted
(E) redeemed
88. During the opera’s most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra’s conductor seemed , without necessary relation to what had gone before.
(A) tedious
(B) melodious
(C) capricious
(D) compelling
(E) cautious
89. In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears , since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.
(A) anomalous … allow for
(B) abstract … speak to
(C) anachronistic … deny
(D) enduring … value
(E) contradictory … exclude
90. During the 1960’s assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution to widespread it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose was both imminent and welcome.
(A) flight from … restitution
(B) fascination with … corruption
(C) rejection of … vogue
(D) censure of … dissolution
(E) relinquishment of … ascent
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