GRE Verbal Reasoning Questions

Text Completion Questions (Set 2)

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Questions 1 to 10 below are Text Completion Questions. For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

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1. With his sub-four minute mile Bannister broke a psychological barrier, and inspired thousands of others to attempt to overcome seemingly ____ hurdles.

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insurmountable
inane
trivial
traumatic
ineffable
2. Ricks has written extensively not only on the poetry of such (1)____ figures in English poetry as Milton and Housman, but also on the less obviously (2)____ lyrics of Bob Dylan.

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obscurantist
arcane
established

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canonical
popular
judicious
3. People who seek advice from (1)____ often find that what they are told can seem true, because these seekers of information attribute significance to some predictions and ignore others. The mind seeks to make sense of predictions that, in themselves, have no (2)____ value, and thus it becomes difficult to prove that the forecasts are (3)____ .

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experts
philosophers
clairvoyants

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special
general
legal

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genuine
specious
accurate
4. Stress-induced amnesia is a rare and (1)____ phenomenon; it strikes the patient apparently without warning and the memory loss can be as (2)____ as that induced by (3)____ trauma.

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devastating
venial
pervasive

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generic
limited
complete

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unexpected
mental
physical
5. The publishers, unwilling to (1)____ the entire risk, insisted that the author pay half the cost of the initial print run of his (2)____ new book.

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hedge
shoulder
mitigate

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unexceptionable
controversial
jaundiced
6. Science advances (1)____ as (2)____ change abruptly and we are forced to stop and reorient ourselves to view old information in new ways.

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exponentially
inexorably
jerkily

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paradigms
axioms
continuities
7. The 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.

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interactive
passive
cybernetic
disruptive
logistic
8. A highly intelligent person often thinks (1)____; a few snippets of information can trigger a (2)____ conclusion that might not stand up to closer, and (3)____, scrutiny.

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too deeply
too warily
too quickly

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firm
labored
hasty

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slower
precipitous
overt
9. Major philosophical (1)____ about morality, identity and rationality, for example, can often be (2)____ by thought experiments: short and simple expositions that pose an abstract and complex problem in a concrete manner with all the (3)____ factors removed.


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certitudes
dilemmas
dogmas

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mimicked
illuminated
evoked

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extraneous
inherent
pivotal
10. All good comic writers use humor to ____, not to side-step the problems of human behavior.

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amuse
avert
juxtapose
confront
solve