GRE Prep Practice Text Completion from Big Book
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Gre Prep Text Completion & Sentence Completion from Big Book
1. The spellings of many Old English words have been ------ in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed.
(A) preserved @
(B) shortened
(C) preempted
(D) revised
(E) improved
clue : changed -> although(reverse direction signal) -> The world meaning 'not change' should be put in the blank.
Communities, too, might preemptively plan how to relocate families, mitigating psychological and financial stress while also maintaining their tax bases.
Earlier this year, the White House scrapped its nomination for an ambassador to South Korea after he privately disagreed with consideration of a preemptive strike against the North.
The goal, aides said, was to present them to Trump to convince him not to launch a preemptive strike.
But he’s also skeptical about the empire he’s helping preserve, an irony that lends depth to an already nuanced character.
Talbot made a huge stop on a short-handed breakaway by Nate Thompson early in the third and withstood some late pressure to preserve the win.
A hard-liner on issues of illegal immigration and voting restrictions, he is fighting to preserve a voter registration law requiring Kansans to show proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Distribute the vegetables, garlic, onion and preservedlemon under and around the meat.
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2. The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly ------ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.
(A) exploited
(B) quantifiable
(C) controversial
(D) inexhaustible @
(E) remarkable
clue : sheer diversity -> represents (same direction signal) -> the word meaning 'many, much' shoud be put in the blank.
Since singing competition shows are television’s most inexhaustible genre, American Idol is back after a blink-and-you-missed-it two years off the air.
The many ridiculous tragedies are just there to slather showy woundedness on a weak, annoying character, leaving "The Vanishing of Sidney Hall" a mystery-free mystery with an inexhaustible supply of eye-rolling postures.
Yet Tharaud’s fallibility only seemed to reinforce the inexhaustible humanity of the Goldbergs.
This is, after all, a beverage with an almost inexhaustiblepalette of aromas and flavors.
But no data exists that captures the scope of the problem in a quantifiable way.
“It intersects with capitalism in the way that capitalism treats value as a quantifiable thing, and there’s this endless need for growth.”
Community initiatives appear to be producing positive results for the companies that sponsor them, quantifiableand not.
In former President Obama's final year in office — the period covered by the report — 16 "major rules" were fully quantifiable, meaning their total costs and benefits were capable of being measured.
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3. For centuries animals have been used as ------ for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans.
(A) benefactors
(B) companions
(C) examples
(D) precedents
(E) surrogates @
clue : 'later be used in humans' & 'in experiments' -> same direction signal -> The word meaning 'substitute' should be put in the blank.
He said he met the ambassador in his capacity as a senator, not as a campaign surrogate.
Was there an active effort to channel Russian disinformation to the candidate and his surrogates?
They’re designed to contain a threat like a school shooter but they wear many other hats: surrogate mom and lunch lady, as Brooks put it.
While movies and books served as a surrogate parent for Gifford, they also supplied him with a template for his own stories about the underclass peppered with snappy dialogue and frequent outbursts of over-the-top violence.
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4. Social tensions among adult factions can be ------ by politics, but adolescents and children have no such ------ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
(A) intensified..attitude
(B) complicated..relief
(C) frustrated..justification
(D) adjusted..mechanism @
(E) revealed..opportunity
Clue : In the context, two words - adult and adolescents(children) - are reverse directional. Adults have the tool for resolving tensions or conflict, but children don't.
“He’s a great example to being dedicated to a routine and be willing to adjust it along the way,” Servais said.
The next innovation, Osorio said, will be the addition of a sleep coach, an assistant who will help his players maximize their rest, adjust to time changes more quickly and learn to sleep better.
Begun in 1996, Sister Circle’s original focus was to help African-American women adjust to college life, but its mission grew over the years to accept any woman who needs support.
“The National Association of Realtors reported this week that existing home sales in February increased 3 percent month-over-month on a seasonally adjusted basis and are up 1.1 percent from a year ago.”
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5. The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ------ between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are ------ to the maintenance of community.
(A) a compromise..inimical
(B) an interdependence..subsidiary
(C) a counterpoint..incidental
(D) an equivalence..prerequisite
(E) a reciprocity..conducive @
Clue : Before the first blank, 'comma' means 'same directional signal'. So the word similar to 'exchanged benefits and beliefs' should be put in the first blank. Laws and procedures are positive words because many people are based on them. So law and procedure are helpful to the maintenance of community.
She criticized Washington for blocking Chinese purchases of high-technology and took issue with calls by U.S. officials for “reciprocity” in access to each other’s markets.
One gun measure that will not be in the omnibus is the National Rifle Association’s top legislative priority this Congress: concealed-carry reciprocity.
“We were so impressed with the singers and they are so impressed by us. It’s reciprocity of extreme passion.”
We asked: Does reciprocity decay over time or hold steady?
There is a very high level of corruption in Russia, which provides a conducive environment for organised crime.
“Some of it is luck and you’re healthy, you’ve got a matchup that was more conducive to you than the other guy,” he said.
“For us, the silence is second nature,” he said, adding that visitors often find it conducive to a transformative experience.
With two weeks till opening day, the time frame is more manageable and conducive to rehabbing injuries to full health.
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6. Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960's portrayed him as ------ thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
(A) an adventurous
(B) a doctrinaire @
(C) an eclectic
(D) a judicious
(E) a cynical
Clue : Because Jefferson had an orthodoxy nature and censored ideas he did not like, maybe historians could see him as stubborn.
The version of Islam practised here owes more to the moderate views of Nahdlatul Ulama, a mass Muslim organisation with roots in the countryside, than to the more doctrinaire teachings gaining ground elsewhere in Indonesia.
It was nevertheless obvious that in some key areas, he at least claimed he wouldn’t be doctrinaire.
The debaters’ doctrinaire arguments, as uncomfortable and tedious as such conflicts tend to be, are contrasted by the portrayal of those moments when they all unite in acts of physical protest.
Roiphe’s piece, which was published last weekend, described what she thinks is a climate of fear, especially online, that chills the airing of ideas that depart from doctrinaire feminism in the age of #MeToo.
I’ll never be as good a director as William Wyler, but to be eclectic like he was — that was always something I wanted.
I'm aware of how eclectic that trio is, and yes, I will watch them in that order.
Pink Martini The eclectic ensemble performs backed by Pacific Symphony.
The eclectic artwork and colorful tapestries plastering the walls of Tower Cafe reflect not only the international menu but also the ethnic patchwork of residents: Mexicans, East Africans, East Asians, Caribs and Europeans among them.
7. To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too ------: any effective intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to ------ thought processes that did not originate with them.
(A) popular..dismiss
(B) methodical..interpret
(C) idiosyncratic..reenact @
(D) self-confident..revitalize
(E) pragmatic..discourage
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