Text Completion Practice Questions
91. Documenting science’s _ philosophy would be , since it is almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations.
(A) distrust of … elementary
(B) influence on … superfluous
(C) reliance on … inappropriate
(D) dependence on … difficult
(E) differences from … impossible
92. The spellings of many Old English words have been in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed.
(A) preserved
(B) shortened
(C) preempted
(D) revised
(E) improved
93.The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.
(A) exploited
(B) quantifiable
(C) controversial
(D) inexhaustible
(E) remarkable
94. For centuries animals have been used as _ for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans.
(A) benefactors
(B) companions
(C) examples
(D) precedents
(E) surrogates
95.Social tensions among adult factions can be by politics, but adolescents and children have no such for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
(A) intensified … attitude
(B) complicated … relief
(C) frustrated … justification
(D) adjusted … mechanism
(E) revealed … opportunity
96.The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are to the maintenance of community.
(A) a compromise … inimical
(B) an interdependence … subsidiary
(C) a counterpoint … incidental
(D) an equivalence … prerequisite
(E) a reciprocity … conducive
97. Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
(A) an adventurous
(B) a doctrinaire
(C) an eclectic
(D) a judicious
(E) a cynical
98. To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too : any effective intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to thought processes that did not originate with them.
(A) popular … dismiss
(B) methodical … interpret
(C) idiosyncratic … reenact
(D) self-confident … revitalize
(E) pragmatic … discourage
99.Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the of the blizzard of 1888.
(A) inevitability
B) ferocity
(C) importance
(D) probability
(E) mildness
100. As the first streamlined car, the Airflow represented a in automotive development, and although its sales were _ , it had an immense influence on automobile design.
(A) milestone … disappointing
(B) breakthrough … significant
(C) regression … unimportant
(D) misjudgment … calculable
(E) revolution … tolerable
101. While nurturing parents can compensate for adversity, cold or inconsistent parents may it.
(A) exacerbate
(B) neutralize
(C) eradicate
(D) ameliorate
(E) relieve
102. The architects of New York’s early skyscrapers, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, sought to legitimize the city’s social strivings by a history the city did not truly .
(A) revealing … deserve
(B) displaying … desire
(C) evoking … possess
(D) preserving … experience
(E) flouting … believe
103.Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one among millions; yet each out-come can be interpreted.
(A) coincidence … randomly
(B) relationship … predictably
(C) fact … readily
(D) happening … uniquely
(E) possibility … rationally
104. Although some of her fellow scientists the unorthodox laboratory methodology that others found innovative, unanimous praise greeted her experimental results: at once pioneering and.
(A) ignored … untrustworthy
(B) complimented … foreseeable
(C) welcomed … mundane
(D) decried … unexceptionable
(E) attacked … inconclusive
105. Early critics of Emily Dickinson’s poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such .
(A) astonishment
(B) vexation
(C) allusion
(D) innocence
(E) cunning
106. This project is the first step in a long-range plan of research whose goal, still many years off, is the creation of a new prototype.
(A) cooperative
(B) reasoned
(C) original
(D) ultimate
(E) intentional
107. Eric was frustrated because, although he was adept at making lies sound , when telling the truth, he the power to make himself believed.
(A) plausible … lacked
(B) convincing … held
(C) honest … found
(D) true … acquired
(E) logical … claimed
108.In certain forms of discourse such as the parable, the central point of a message can be effectively communicated even though this point is not .
(A) preferred
(B) explicit
(C) inferable
(D) discerned
(E) illustrated
109.Always circumspect, she was reluctant to make judgments, but once arriving at a conclusion, she was in its defense.
(A) nonplussed
(B) obsequious
(C) intransigent
(D) deferential
(E) negligent
110.The techniques now available to livestock breeders will continue to be , but will probablybe by new ones under development.
(A) fruitful … reversed
(B) refined … upgraded
(C) inconvenient … reassessed
(D) used … supplemented
(E) harmless … improved
111.Any population increase beyond a certain level necessitates greater vegetable foods; thus,
the ability of a society to choose meat over cereals always arises, in part, from the
number of people.
(A) reliance on … replenishing
(B) production of … estimating
(C) spending on … concealing
(D) recourse to … limiting
(E) attention to … varying
112. Ethologists are convinced that many animals survive through learning—but learning that is their genetic programming, learning as thoroughly as the most instinctive of behavioral responses.
(A) superseded by … primitive
(B) compatible with … transient
(C) complementary to … familiar
(D) derived from … inventive
(E) dictated by … stereotyped
113. Though some of the information the author reveals about Russian life might surprise Americans, her major themes are enough.
(A) familiar
(B) thorough
(C) vital
(D) original
(E) interesting
114.In the early twentieth century, the discovery of radium the popular imagination; not only was its discoverer, Marie Curie, idolized, but its market value that of the rarest gemstone.
(A) stormed … sank to
(B) horrified … approached
(C) taxed … was equal to
(D) enflamed … exceeded
(E) escaped … was comparable to
115.The president’s secretary and his chief aide adored him, and both wrote obsessively personal memoirs about him; unfortunately, however, does not make for true intimacy.
(A) fatuous … frankness
(B) devoted … idolatry
(C) garrulous … confidentiality
(D) candid … discretion
(E) rancorous … criticism
116. Despite claims that his philosophy can be traced to source, the philosophy in fact draws liberally on several traditions and methodologies and so could justifiably be termed .
(A) a particular … consistent
(B) a schematic … multifaceted
(C) a dominant … cogent
(D) an authoritative … derivative
(E) a single … eclectic
117. Du Bois’ foreign trips were the highlight, not the , of his travels; he was habitually on the
go across and around the United States.
(A) idiosyncrasy
(B) result
(C) precursor
(D) culmination
(E) totality
118. Business forecasts usually prove reasonably accurate when the assumption that the futurewill be much like the past is ; in times of major in the business environment, however,forecasts can be dangerously wrong.
(A) specified … discontinuities
(B) questioned … surges
(C) contradicted … improvements
(D) entertained … risks
(E) satisfied … shifts
119.It is almost always desirable to increase the yield of a crop if increases are not alsonecessary in energy, labor, and other inputs of crop production.
(A) predetermined
(B) commensurate
(C) compatible
(D) measured
(E) equivocal
120. Job failure means being fired from a job, being asked to resign, or leaving to protect yourselfbecause you had very strong evidence that one of the first two was .
(A) voluntarily … impending
(B) abruptly … significant
(C) knowingly … operative
(D) understandably … pertinent
(E) eventually … intentional
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