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GRE EXAM 60 text completion questions collected from real60 text completion questions collected from real GRE
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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
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60 text completion questions collected from real GRE
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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 (D) promoted
(B) undermined by (E) ignored
(C) misunderstood (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.
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 waste-
disposal options.
8. So (i) ______ is the police‘s corruption and (ii) ______ that it has been a tradition that every newly-
appointed police chef pledges to (iii) ______ the force.
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.
, 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.
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