Text Completion Practice Questions
31. Scientist’ pristine reputation as devotees of the disinterested pursuit of truth has been by recent evidence that some scientists have deliberately experimental results to further their own careers.
(A) reinforced … published
(B) validated … suppressed
(C) exterminated … replicated
(D) compromised … fabricated
(E) resuscitated … challenged
32. Although Johnson’s and Smith’s initial fascination with the fortunes of those jockeying for power in the law firm after a few months, the two paid sufficient attention to determine who their lunch partner should be.
(A) revived
(B) emerged
(C) intensified
(D) flagged
(E) persisted
33. A war, even if fought for individual liberty and democratic rights, usually requires that these principles be , for they are the regimentation and discipline necessary for military efficiency.
(A) espoused … contrary to
(B) suppressed … fulfilled through
(C) suspended … incompatible with
(D) followed … disruptive of
(E) rejected … inherent in
34. To test the of borrowing from one field of study to enrich another, simply investigate the extent to which terms from the one may, without forcing, be the other.
(A) risk … confused with
(B) universality … applied to
(C) decorum … illuminated by
(D) rate … superseded by
(E) efficacy … utilized by
35. The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he criticized Dickens’ Oliver Twist for making the characters in the thieves’ kitchen so.
(A) threatening
(B) riveting
(C) conniving
(D) fearsome
(E) irritating
36. 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.
(A) underrate
(B) control
(C) reassess
(D) praise
(E) eliminate
37. Their mutual teasing seemed , but in fact it a long-standing hostility.
(A) aimless … produced
(B) friendly … masked
(C) playful … contravened
(D) bitter … revealed
(E) clever … averted
38. 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.
(A) aptitude … unavoidable
(B) regard … indeterminate
(C) respect … negotiable
(D) patience … imminent
(E) enthusiasm … grudging
39. It has been argued that politics as , whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.
(A) a theory
(B) an ideal
(C) a practice
(D) a contest
(E) an enigma
40. 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.
(A) fusion … useful
(B) struggle … dehumanizing
(C) parallel … unfettered
(D) conflict … beneficent
(E) similarity … malevolent
41. 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.
(A) ornamental … subtle
(B) unidimensional … unintelligible
(C) symbolic … complex
(D) literal … allusive
(E) subjective … metaphorical
42. 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.
(A) crossfire … tout
(B) interplay … advocate
(C) paradox … prefer
(D) deliberation … attribute
(E) tussle … substitute
43. Although adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing with regard to onset and duration.
(A) lasts
(B) varies
(C) falters
(D) accelerates
(E) dwindles
44. Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so modified and enlarged that the design is no longer
(A) pertinent … relevant
(B) intended … necessary
(C) embellished … attractive
(D) appropriate … applicable
(E) initial … discernible
45. While the delegate clearly sought to the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.
(A) substantiate
(B) dampen
(C) encourage
(D) elucidate
(E) rekindle
46. The old man could not have been accused of his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his her.
(A) lavishing … fondness for
(B) sparing … tolerance of
(C) rationing … antipathy for
(D) stinting … adoration of
(E) promising … dislike of
47. A leading chemist believes that many scientists have difficulty with stereochemistry because much of the relevant nomenclature is , in that it combines concepts that should be kept.
(A) obscure … interrelated
(B) specialized … intact
(C) subtle … inviolate
(D) descriptive … separate
(E) imprecise … discrete
48. Among the many of the project, expense cannot be numbered; the goals of the project’s promoters can be achieved with impressive .
(A) highlights … efficiency
(B) features … savings
(C) disadvantages … innovation
(D) claims … speed
(E) defects … economy
49. Though science is often imagined as a exploration of external reality, scientists are no different from anyone else: they are human beings enmeshed in a web of personal and social circumstances.
(A) fervent … vulnerable
(B) neutral … rational
(C) painstaking … careless
(D) disinterested … passionate
(E) cautious … dynamic
50. 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.
(A) functions … rigidity
(B) estimates … indirectness
(C) norms … confusion
(D) regulations … certainty
(E) studies … misapprehension
51. As long as nations cannot themselves accumulate enough physical power to dominate all others, they must depend on .
(A) allies
(B) resources
(C) freedom
(D) education
(E) self-determination
52. We realized that John was still young and impressionable, but were nevertheless surprised at his.
(A) naïveté
(B) obstinateness
(C) decisiveness
(D) ingeniousness
(E) resolve
53. 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.
(A) awe-inspiring … restrained
(B) gaseous … confirmed
(C) explosive … belied
(D) familiar … moderated
(E) volatile … suggested
54. 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.
(A) transparent … useful
(B) ephemeral … sensitive
(C) faddish … underutilized
(D) arbitrary … problematic
(E) permanent … reliable
55. 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.
(A) negates … temptation
(B) controls … resolution
(C) engenders … propensity
(D) tempers … proclivity
(E) obviates … inclination
56. 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.
(A) unreliable
(B) arcane
(C) arrogant
(D) elementary
(E) intuitive
57. 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.
(A) scent
(B) beauty
(C) elegance
(D) color
(E) variety
58. 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.
(A) pitfall … recitals
(B) glory … chorales
(C) nightmare … ballads
(D) delight … chanteys
(E) routine … composers
59. Dependence on foreign sources of heavy metals, though , remains for United States foreign policy.
(A) deepening … a challenge
(B) diminishing … a problem
(C) excessive … a dilemma
(D) debilitating … an embarrassment
(E) unavoidable … a precedent
60. Cynics believe that people who compliments do so in order to be praised twice.
(A) bask in
(B) give out
(C) despair of
(D) gloat over
(E) shrug off
To know more about
GRE Click here
Practice Test Completion Question Paper 1