GRE Verbal Reasoning Questions

1. Scrooge, in the famous novel by Dickens, was a ____ ; he hated the rest of mankind.

2. A businessman must (1)____ his horizons; a (2)____ attitude will get you nowhere in this age of global communications.

3. Our bookshelves at home display a range of books on wide-ranging subjects and in many languages, reflecting the ____ tastes of our family members.

4. We humans are selfish creatures, continuing to (1)____ the use of plastic bags, those (2)____ symbols of consumer society. Wherever you travel you see them clogging drains, polluting beaches and generally threatening the well-being of the biosphere.

5. The preliminary review concludes that Dr. Stuart needs to (1)____ his argument with more experimental data. In its current avatar his thesis is so (2)____ that it must be deemed (3)____.

6. After an initially warm reception by most reviewers and continued ____ by conservative thinkers, Bloom's work came under heavy fire.

7. Through the 19th Century, the classics of Western Civilization were considered the (1)____ of wisdom and culture, and an (2)____ person – by definition – knew them well.

8. In this biography we are given a glimpse of the young man (1)____ pursuing the path of the poet despite (2)____ and rejection slips.

9. While unwilling to forgo the benefits of standardized testing, many European countries are seeking to (1)____ individual (2)____ which state examinations with their (3)____ growth have bought in their train.

10. In keeping with his own (1)____ in international diplomacy, Churchill proposed a personal meeting of heads of government, but the effort was (2)____ , as the temper of the times was (3)____.