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GRE Text Completion Practice

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  1. 1With his sub-four minute mile Bannister broke a psychological barrier, and inspired thousands of others to attempt to overcome seemingly ____ hurdles.
    1. AInsurmountable
    2. BInane
    3. CTrivial
    4. DTraumatic
    5. EIneffable
  2. 2 All good comic writers use humor to ____, not to side-step the problems of human behavior.
    1. Aamuse
    2. Bavert
    3. Cjuxtapose
    4. Dconfront
    5. Esolve
  3. 3The game of chess is an example of a ___ information system: the pieces sit inertly on the board until the players move them according to known rules.
    1. Ainteractive
    2. Bpassive
    3. Ccybernetic
    4. Ddisruptive
    5. Elogistic
  4. 4An artist’s preliminary sketches are often a ____of a subject; on the basis of these sketches the artist makes a decision on his or her approach to the final painting.
    1. Areconnaissance
    2. B caricature
    3. C vignette
    4. Dpastiche
    5. E cameo
  5. 5Taking antibiotics for a viral infection may, it is true, be ____ ; however, in certain cases a course of these drugs can actually ward off opportunistic bacterial infections.
    1. Ajustified
    2. Benough
    3. Crecommended
    4. Dineffective
    5. Ecurative
  6. 6The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.
    1. A trudges
    2. Bmeanders
    3. Cedges
    4. Dambles
    5. Erages
  7. 7 Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example, all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following.
    1. Amerits
    2. Bdisadvantages
    3. Crewards
    4. Djargon
    5. Eproblems
  8. 8____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.
    1. Agarrulous
    2. Bequivocal
    3. Ctaciturn
    4. Darrogant
    5. Egregarious
  9. 9Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however, Hall found that many marketed spices were ____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts.
    1. Adevoid of
    2. Bteeming with
    3. Cimproved by
    4. Ddestroyed by
    5. Eactive against
  10. 10 Unwilling to admit that they had been in error, the researchers tried to ____ their case with more data obtained from dubious sources.
    1. Aascertain
    2. Bbuttress
    3. Crefute
    4. Dabsolve
    5. Edispute

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