[편입영어] GRE Prep Text Completion

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Gre text completion, sentence completion 은 편입영어에서는 

논리완성 또는 문장완성으로 불리웁니다.

정확한 단서를 바탕으로 답을 논리적으로 추론하는 능력을 키우는 것이 핵심입니다.

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Part I

1. The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to ------ its significance.

   (A) underrate 

   (B) control

   (C) reassess

   (D) praise

   (E) eliminate

2. Their mutual teasing seemed ------, but in fact it ------ a long-standing hostility.

   (A) aimless..produced

   (B) friendly..masked 

   (C) playful..contravened

   (D) bitter..revealed

   (E) clever..averted

3. Noting that few employees showed any ------ for complying with the corporation's new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be ------, at best.

   (A) aptitude..unavoidable

   (B) regard..indeterminate

   (C) respect..negotiable

   (D) patience..imminent

   (E) enthusiasm..grudging 

4. It has been argued that politics as ------, whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.

   (A) a theory

   (B) an ideal

   (C) a practice 

   (D) a contest

   (E) an enigma

5. In many science fiction films, the opposition of good and evil is portrayed as a ------ between technology, which is ------, and the errant will of a depraved intellectual.

   (A) fusion..useful

   (B) struggle..dehumanizing

   (C) parallel..unfettered

   (D) conflict..beneficent 

   (E) similarity..malevolent

6. Although scientists claim that the seemingly ------ language of their reports is more precise than the figurative language of fiction, the language of science, like all language, is inherently ------.

   (A) ornamental..subtle

   (B) unidimensional..unintelligible

   (C) symbolic..complex

   (D) literal..allusive

   (E) subjective..metaphorical 

7. In recent decades the idea that Cezanne influenced Cubism has been caught in the ------ between art historians who credit Braque with its invention and those who ------ Picasso.

   (A) crossfire..tout 

   (B) interplay..advocate

   (C) paradox..prefer

   (D) deliberation..attribute

   (E) tussle..substitute

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Part II

22. As it turns out, air temperatures at the Earth's surface have been _______ while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar over the past 15 years.

① variable

② flat

③ bizarre

④ drastic

23. By arresting relatively moderate activists, Chinese leaders demonstrate again that they will not _______ anti-government demonstrations.

① tolerate

② suppress

③ threaten

④ slander

24. A £60 jar of face cream made with the venom of an Asian snake is flying off the shelves after being billed as the latest _______ to wrinkles.

① placebo

② contributor

③ desire

④ antidote

25. It was January 49 BC, Caesar was staying in the northern Italian city of Ravenna and he had a decision to make. Either he _______ the Senate's command or he moved southward to confront Pompey and plunge the Roman Republic into a bloody civil war. An ancient Roman law forbade any general from crossing the Rubicon River and entering Italy proper with a standing army. To do so was _______. This tiny stream would reveal Caesar's intentions and mark the point of no return.

① indulge in ― justice

② acquiesced to ― treason

③ refrained from ― faith

④ rebelled against ― dedication

26. Andrew Carnegie, a 19th-century tycoon, famously said that inherited wealth "_______ talents and energies" ― one reason why he gave most of his fortune to charity. Business research tends to support the Carnegie thesis. Companies controlled by _______ often underperform competitors that have professional

managers.

① conserves ― executives

② reveals ― entrepreneurs

③ deadens ― heirs

④ squanders ― shareholders

27. The most common expression of lex talionis is "an eye for an eye". Legal codes following the principle of lex talionis have one thing in common: prescribed 'fitting' counter punishment for an offence. In the famous legal code written by Hammurabi, the principle of exact reciprocity is very clearly used. For example, if a person caused the death of another person, the killer would be _______.

① barred from taking

② released on parole

③ exempted from punishment

④ put to death

28. The ruling by India's Supreme Court to reject a patent request by Norvatis for the drug Gleevec, which provides effective treatment for some forms of leukemia, allows Indian makers of generic drugs to _______, cheaper versions of it. 

① use patented compounds

② make an unapproved therapy

③ export prescription drugs

④ continue making copycat