GRE EXAM 60 text completion questions collected from real

GRE EXAM 60 text completion questions collected from real60 text completion questions collected from real GRE exams 1 Although Emily Brontë is impassioned about gender equality, she is anything but ______ to endorse more privileges endowing to women. (A) zealous (B) apathetic (C) abhorrent (D) stubborn (E) lethargic 2 Many of the towns that have voted to keep incinerators in the county‘s solid waste plan have done so not because they necessarily ____ incinerators, but because they are ____ to narrow their wastedisposal options. (A) disdain … expecting (B) favor … inclined (C) dote on … eager (D) approve of … loath (E) deplore … unwilling 3 That guild of experts has always appraised the economic stimulation plan as bootless, while the advocates of the policy do not take their ______ evaluation for granted. (A) tendentious (B) meticulous (C) treacherous (D) ubiquitous (E) deprecatory 4 For decades, economists‘ ideas have been (i) ______ politics. For example, economists peddled their pet theories for academical preeminence and for political appointment, while politicians (ii) ______ those theories as solutions of social problems. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) exploited to (B) undermined by (C) misunderstood (D) promoted (E) ignored (F) rejected 5 Although Emily Brontë is little impassioned about gender equality, she is anything but ______ to endorse more privileges endowing to women. (A) zealous (B) apathetic (C) abhorrent (D) stubborn (E) lethargic 6 Higher energy prices would have many (i) ______ effects on society as a whole. Besides encouraging consumers to be more (ii) ______ in their use of gasoline, they would encourage the development of renewable alternative energy sources that are not (iii) ______ at current prices. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) pernicious (B) counterintuitive (C) salubrious (D) aggressive (E) predictable (F) sparing (G) unstable (H) adaptable (I) viable 7 Many of the towns that have voted to keep incinerators in the county‘s solid-waste plan have done so not because they necessarily (i) ______ incinerators, but because they are (ii) ______ to narrow their wastedisposal options. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) question (B) favor (C) oppose (D) willing (E) eager (F) loath 8. So (i) ______ is the police‘s corruption and (ii) ______ that it has been a tradition that every newlyappointed police chef pledges to (iii) ______ the force. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) unfounded (B) persistent (C) unaware (D) incompetence (E) criminality (F) malpractice (G) reform (H) contradict (I) strengthen 9 Learning is a (i) ______ process. Because of that, in most test-based materials, reading is more (ii) ______ than watching a DVD. The more passive a person is, the more information that is going to pass through without entering brain. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) participatory (B) difficult (C) continuous (D) interesting (E) educative (F) fatigued 10 Nevertheless, the claim—advocated by many experts—that a child acts more like a ‗grammatical genius‘ than an empty slate, a ‗tabula rasa‘, ready to be written on and forged by experience, seem ______ to those who think of language as the zenith of the human intellect and who think of instincts as brute impulses that compel furry or feathered zombies to build a dam or up and fly south. (A) tangent (B) prehensile (C) manifest (D) consonance (E) jarring 11 ‖RESIGNATION‖, an English word the French novelist Christian Oster would no doubt appreciate, presents an elegant paradox: in one sense, it indicates a bold step, a cleaving of oneself from an attachment grown onerous; in another, it‘s the height of ______, an acquiescence to fate. (A) sham (B) fissure (C) desperation (D) passivity (E) maturity 12 Despite the book has ______ language and an abridged dictionary, I still find a lot of things about eighteenth century. (A) lamented (B) antipathic (C) rarified (D) pellucid (E) aggresive 13 To have (i) ______ book reviews is in defense of the value and… hope that the author, having his/her (ii)______ pointed out, secretly knows that it could be improved. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) hortatory (B) frank (C) adverse (D) strength (E) transgression (F) assumption 14 Despite its (i) ______ cover, the book is very (ii) ______. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (D) onerous (E) insipid (F) fawning (G) cynicism (H) hypocritical (I) realistic 15 Stories are a haunted genre; hardly (i) ______ kind of story, the ghost story is almost the paradigm of the form, and (ii) ______ was undoubtedly one effect that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how stories work. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) a debased (B) a normative (C) a meticulous (D) pessimism (E) goosebumps (F) curiosity 16 No other contemporary poet‘s work has such a well-earned reputation for (i) ______, and there are few whose moral vision is so imperiously unsparing. Of late, however, the almost belligerent demands of his severe and densely forbidding poetry have taken an improbable turn. This new collection is the poet‘s fourth book in six years─an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition, let alone for one of such (ii)______ over the previous 50 years. Yet for all his newfound (iii) ______, his poetry is as thorny as ever. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) patent accessibility (B) intrinsic frivolity (C) near impenetrability (D) penitential austeriy (E) intractable prolixity (F) impetuous prodigality (G) taciturnity (H) volubility (I) pellucidity 17 Modern readers ofteh think ancient Rome or Greek literature‘s moral sentiment vapid, but people from the 17th century found them ______. (A) arcane (B) dogmatic (C) didactic (D) jejune (E) perplexed 18 As for choice, behavorial economists will tell you that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. A (i)_____ of choices can be paralyzing, as Barry Schwartz pointed out in his recent book ―The Paradox of Choice.‖ Ask shoppers in a supermarket to taste six different jams, and odds are that they‘ll buy the jam they like the best. Offer them twenty four different jams, and odds are they‘ll walk away without buying any. Studies show that the more investment choices a plan offers, the less likely people are to participate in it. In this regard, Social Security‘s lack of flexibility may actually be a (ii) _____. People (iii) _____ some upside, in exchange for peace of mind. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) sufficient (B) surfeit (C) lack (D) gift (E) disadvange (F) virtue (G) consider (H) keep (I) forgot 19 People in iceland have a saying that every icelander is a writter. Although this seems (i) ______, (ii) ______, on average, 1 in every 250 people has published a book. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) sarcasm (B) clarification (C) hyperbole (D) stress (E) understand (F) perpetuate 20 The playwright‘s approach is (i) ______ in that her works (ii) ______ the theatrical devices normally used to create drama on the stage. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) pedestrian (B) startling (C) celebrated (D) jettison (E) experiment with (F) distill 21 This filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters: her films are known for their aesthetic qualities rather than for their ______ ones. (A) polemical (B) cinematic (C) narrative (D) commercial (E) dramatic 22 For Ruskin, architecture serves the community only when approached in a spirit of piety and (i) ______. Architecture must set effective boundaries to public space, and it does so by (ii) ______ the desire to show off, to stand out, to record the artistic flair of some temporary ego. Architecture succeeds in its public task through (iii) ______ and devotion, of the kind that can be observed in the moulding, firing and laying of a properly proportioned brick, but which is violated at every point by Frank Gehry‘s bombastic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) altruism (B) sanctimonious (C) sacrifice (D) retrieving (E) fastening (F) relinquishing (G) humility (H) demise (I) braggadocio 23 As the study of the foundation of western Shanghai reveals, there was a sense of elegance in the refined, simple lines that characterized the entire row, bereft of the exuberant, emphatic, assertive, ornament that constituted the latest British architectural fashion, which expressed its detestation of Palladianism and neoclassicism – London‘s Regent Street then being regarded as abhorrent – calling it the product of a (i) ______―shopocracy‖. The (ii) ______ of Western architectural taste – oscillating between simplicity and ornamental (iii) ______ – must have bemused Chinese observers who had long accepted that both approaches were valid and could co-exist. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) superficial (B) quintessential (C) disdained (D) impermanence (E) eternality (F) subtlety (G) profundity (H) modesty (I) exuberance 24 As a result of lacking strong opposing organization to ______, the chief focus their rancor on one another at the conference where the issues were put forward and intended to be resolved. (A) immolate (B) excoriate (C) parley (D) exterminate (E) collaborate 25 Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the low levels of serious conflict among members of democratically run work groups: a modicum of tolerance for dissent often prevents ______. (A) demur (B) schism (C) cooperation (D) compliance (E) shortsightedness 26 A manager should (i) ______ the power that is not (ii) ______, but he should make good use of the power it retains. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) consolidate (B) deploy (C) disperse (D) forbidden (E) hard pressed (F) well-suited 27 Scientists at chocolate manufactuer attempts to (i) ______ cocoa bean‘s chemical composition, so that they can (ii) ______ the taste of cocoa bean in order to (iii) ______ a failure from cocoa bean suppliers. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) unlock (B) produce (C) recycle (D) description (E) replication of (F) synthesis (G) prevent (H) mitigate (I) prohibit 28 Trying to cover the vast US history in a few hundreds pages often led critics to disregard his work, overlooking his emphasis of (i) ______ and (ii) ______. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) brevity (B) details (C) story telling (C) complexity (D) subtlety (E) efficiency 29 Sylvester takes on a solemn and sagacious persona, the expression of his commitment to a deliberate conversation to a disconcerting and hypnotic pace, but this ______ could be intimidating. (A) gravitas (B) ingénue (C) banality (D) lassitude (E) solicitude 30 The paradoxical characteristic of the reliable employee Donna is her ______, when we consider her usual feigning illness to escape from her labor. (A) halcyon (B) charlatan (C) malingering (D) retribution (E) earnestness 31 She demonstrates great extent of ______, as she has traveled to many more countries and places around the world than any of her kindred. (A) perfidiousness (B) peregrination (C) jubilation (D) sagaciousness (E) conspicuousness 32 Most of characters in her novel are already lampooned figures; however, she (i) ______ this tradition to avoid (ii) ______. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) relies on (B) ignores (C) takes advantage of (D) verisimilitude (E) caricature (F) critisim 33 In her works, she (i) ______ confidence. She gets excessively (ii) ______ to authorities, even when rejecting their views. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) inspire (B) exude (C) lack (D) pugnacious E) differential (F) indifferent 34 Folk music remained (i) ______ by reinforcing ethical identities; nonetheless, it was (ii) ______ in the countryside where it originated. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) traditional (B) vital (C) trivial (D) declined (E) popularize (F) ignored 35 The family take importance on face value and has no tolerance to ______ . (A) insensitivity (B) dissimulation (C) self-absorption (D) self-promotion (E) counter argument 36 The question whether children like sweeter or not is (i) ______. Of course children like sweeter, which is (ii) ______ to sellers, since children‘s taste will not change once it is used to a certain brand. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) debated (B) decided (C) overlooked/ ignored (D) pragmatic (E) a commercial advantage (F) profitable 37 Behavior economists found that the more (i) ______ options listed on the insurance make people all the more offish to endorse, partly because they hope to (ii) ______ some (iii) ______ in order to get a measure of peace of mind. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) lucrative (B) monotonous (C) complicated (D) forgo (E) dampen (F) jockey (G) convolution (H) detriment (I) benefit 38 Consumers are (i) ______ to spend $50 to subscribe magazines, but they will (ii) ______ a few cents for reading an article. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) reluctant (B) keen (C) hestitant (D) lay out (E) levy (F) put by 39 Before divulging the nature of the study, the scientists expected the public reaction to be ______, predicting that they will get macabre result; thus they carefully prepare a press conference to explain the worth and medical benefit of the research. (A) repercussion (B) indifference (C) trifling criticism (D) approval (E) fanatic 40 His theory cannot be regarded as