GRE Prep Text Completion from Big Book


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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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Gre Prep Text Completion & Sentence Completion from Big Book


1. Animals that have tasted unpalatable plants tend to ------ them afterward on the basis of their most conspicuous features, such as their flowers.
   (A) recognize @
   (B) hoard
   (C) trample
   (D) retrieve
   (E) approach

clue : "on the basis of their most conspicuous features" is the cue. "conspicuous" means "obvious to the eye or mind" so recognize is the best answer.


The Spain squad was announced on Friday for the team’s friendly matches against Germany and Argentina this month, and Morata’s name was conspicuous by its absence.
It eventually made him a conspicuous target as America headed into World War II and the single-minded promotion of a nativist art was a little too close to the aesthetic dictates of Fascism.
The second would require the ads to contain similarly conspicuous disclosures about their origins, but not in the exact same format as other mediums.
The military, meanwhile, was conspicuous by its absence at the school.


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2. As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only ------ government records to see ------ evidence of the failure of such opinions in many fields.
   (A) inspect..questionable
   (B) retain..circumstantial
   (C) distribute..possible
   (D) consult..strong @
   (E) evaluate..problematic

clue : If you suspect the expert opinion is alleged, you need to have evidence. I think "goverment records" is evidence, and so you have to seek information from the government records to disprove the expert opinion. 


Those involve considerable set-up and ongoing costs, so consulta tax pro to see if it's a good fit.
Dowd declined to say whether he consulted with the president before issuing his statement.
The groom, also 49, is a director in the health care practice of Navigant Consulting, a consulting firm in Chicago.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Saturday that her government will consider its next steps against Moscow after consulting with Britain’s allies over the next few days.

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3. In scientific inquiry it becomes a matter of duty to expose a ------ hypothesis to every possible kind of ------.

   (A) tentative..examination @

   (B) debatable..approximation

   (C) well-established..rationalization

   (D) logical..elaboration

   (E) suspect..correlation


clue : I think "hypothesis" is the important cue. "hypothesis" means "a tentative insight" or "concept not yet verified" . Scientists have the duty of proving hypothesis by examining.


It’s an example of the way that language is “underspecified for meaning,” which, to Everett, supports his hypothesis that culture is inextricable from language.
A more plausible hypothesis is that the diplomats were exposed to some kind of toxin.
Following a series of discussions about the anatomy and lifestyles of azhdarchids, Mark and I made the decision to turn our hypothesis into a technical paper.
The study counters previous hypotheses, which suggested that the behemoth was so disastrous it caused the human species to teeter on the brink of extinction.



Bilibili, another Chinese video streaming company, also set tentative pricing for its New York listing, seeking to raise as up to $525 million.
ReutersMar 18, 2018
The story begins like a taut mystery and morphs into a romance between two tentative lovers, beset by loss.
Seattle TimesMar 17, 2018
Four pregnancies: two losses over two years, followed by one little girl, followed by one baby, currently inside, who occupies a tentative place between a pregnancy and a living child.
The GuardianMar 17, 2018
Infantino discussed tentative plans for the women’s competition there, without providing details.
New York TimesMar 15, 2018

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4. Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very ------, have certain characteristics in common.
   (A) relevant
   (B) elementary
   (C) abstract
   (D) diverse @
   (E) controversial

clue : "have ~ in common" is the cue => though (negative signal) => so .. the antonym of 'common(same)' should be put in the blank.

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5. Although Johnson ------ great enthusiasm for his employees' project, in reality his interest in the project was so ------ as to be almost nonexistent.

   (A) generated..redundant

   (B) displayed..preemptive

   (C) expected..indiscriminate

   (D) feigned..perfunctory @

   (E) demanded..dispassionate

clue : the cue of the second blank is "nonexistent" => so ~ as to ~ (positive signal) => the similar nuance word of 'nonexistent' should be put in the second blank. He had no interest in the project... but seemingly Johnson had great enthusiasm.


Suitably buoyed by staving off defeat, 67th-ranked Delbonis broke in the next game and then held serve for the victory, converting his first match point to a perfunctory reception from the pro-Harrison crowd.
But it is perfunctory not to consider the generation of people unnecessary exposed to tobacco and dying because we wanted to 'wait' for the evidence.
I wasn’t a huge Slater girl, as I noted, but something about the JD-Veronica relationship clicked better in the movie and felt perfunctory here.
Malloy says he received only a “perfunctory” answer on Thursday from the three officials and “nothing satisfactory.”



On cross-examination, Dr. Dubin testified he did not believe that Ms. Ortega 
was feigning symptoms of psychosis.
Judge Michael Grieve QC thanked the jury for their "good humour" throughout the trial in the face of what he said were Msokeri's delaying tactics, including regularly feigning illness and claiming to be disabled.
But she’s also got great comic timing, as when Amanda feigns a smile or uses what she calls “the technique” to produce crocodile tears.
Israel’s state prosecution says she is feigning mental illness to avoid extradition.



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