Practice Test

Practice Test

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Each GRE sample sentence compltion question below has one or two blanks. Each blank shows that something has been omitted. Under each GRE sample sentence completion question five words are given as choice. Choose the one correct word for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentences as a whole.


1. The fact that the_____ of confrontation is no longer as popular as it once was _____progress in race relations.
A. insidiousness - reiterates
B. practice - inculcates
C. glimmer - foreshadows
D. technique - presages
E. reticence - indicates
2. A child should not be _____as being either very shy or over aggressive.
A. categorized
B. instructed
C. intoned
D. distracted
E. refrained
3. President Anwar el - Sadat of Egypt, disregarding ______ criticism in the Alab world and in his own Government, _____ accepted prime minister Menahem Begin's invitation to visit Israel in order to address the Israeli parliament.
A. acrimonious - formally
B. blemished - stiffly
C. categorical - previously
D. malignant - plaintively
E. charismatic - meticulou
4. In his usual ______manner, he had insured himself against this type of loss.
A. pensive
B. providential
C. indifferent
D. circumspect
E. caustic
5. We never believed that he would resort to ______in order to achieve his goal; we always regarded him as a _____man.
A. charm - insincere
B. necromancy - pietistic
C. logic - honorable
D. prestidigitation - articulate
E. subterfuge - honest
6. 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. unproven
B. banal
C. superficial
D. complex
E. heretical
7. Despite assorted effusion to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and quite possibly, there may be something of a ______ between them.
A. dichotomy
B. congruity
C. reciprocity
D. fusion
E. generosity
8. The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the greatest ______ indeed savagery seems to be indirect proposition to ____
A. inventions - know-how
B. wars - viciousness
C. triumphs - civilizations
D. atrocities - development
E. catastrophes - ill-will
9. Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater _____their efforts to build as Progressive Party than the ______ of the progressive already elected to the legislature.
A. obstacle to - resistance
B. support for - advocacy
C. praise for - reputation
D. threat to - promise
E. benefit - success
10. The _____ tones of the flute succeeded in _____ his tense nerves.
A. rhapsodic - minimising
B. blatant - enhancing
C. hovendous - calming
D. vibrant - portraying
E. mellifluous - soothing.
11. Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is ______ and the patient's communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in thercopy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to _________ it.
A. lost - forget
B. implicit - extend
C. impaired - sacrifise
D. ambiguous - apply
E. assumed - examine.
12. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ____they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ____of natural beauty and human glory. A. great - immutability
B. joyful - mortality
C. conventional - wildness
D. cheerful - transitoriness
E. colorful - abstractness.
13. Despite the _____of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize ''pop culture'' as a key for _____ the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.
A. pedantry - reinstating
B. enthusiasm - symbolizing
C. skepticism - deciphering
D. antipathy - involving
E. discernment - evaluating.
14. If duty is the natural _____ of one's the course of future events, then people who are powerful have______ duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
A. outgrowth - control over
B. arbiter - responsibility for
C. correlate - understanding of
D. determinant - involvement in
E. mitigant - preoccupation with .
15. Clearly refuting sceptics, researches have _____ not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory _____ it should do.
A. supposed - asserted
B. voubted -warranted
C. assumed - deduced
D. demonstrated - predicted
E. estimated - accepted
16. The Neolatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the ____of creation.
A. variety
B. economy
C. profusion
D. clarity
E. precision.
17. It is a great ____to be able to transfer useful genes with as little extra gene material as possible, because the donor's genome may contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with _____ effects.
A. Disappointment - superfluous
B. Convenience - exquisite
C. Advantage - deleterious
D. Accomplishment - profound
E. Misfortune - unpredictable.
18. While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not _____ the manufacturer's spokesperson argued that effective _____ were simply not available.
A. indeterminable - safeguards
B. unusual - alternatives
C. inconsequential - substitutes
D. proven - antidotes
E. increasing - procedures.
19. Human reaction to the realm of though is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our higher moral life is based on the fact that _____ sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than do ideas of ______ facts.
A. emotional - impersonal
B. familiar : symbolic
C. disturbing - ordinary
D. material - remote
E. defenitive - controvoisial.