[편입영어] GRE Big Book Text Completion / Sentence Completion

1. We first became aware that her support for the new program was less than ------- when she declined to make a speech in its favor.

(A) qualified

(B) haphazard

(C) fleeting

(D) unwarranted

(E) wholehearted

-> In this sentece, "when" means "becasue". The sentence, "declined to ~ in its favor" implys she did not support for the new program. (E) is proper.

2. Once Renaissance painters discovered how to ------- volume and depth, they were able to replace the medieval convention of symbolic, two-dimensional space with the more -------

illusion of actual space.

(A) reverse. .conventional

(B) portray. .abstract

(C) deny. .concrete

(D) adumbrate. .fragmented

(E) render. .realistic

-> In the structure " replace A with B ",  usually A is opposite to B. "symbolic" is similar to "unrealistic". So I think (E) is proper.

3. If efficacious new medicines have side effects that are commonly observed and -------, such medicines are too often considered -------, even when laboratory tests suggest caution.

(A) unremarkable. .safe

(B) unpredictable. .reliable

(C) frequent. .outdated

(D) salutary. .experimental

(E) complicated. .useful

-> To solve the first blank, you must see "commonly observed". This means the side effects are not serious. So (B) and (E) can be eliminated. (D) must be eliminated because there are no "salutary side effects" in the world. 

-> If the side effects are not serious, it is likely that many people think the medicines with the side effects to be safe. So (A) is proper.

4. The necessity of establishing discrete categories for observations frequently leads to attempts to make absolute ------- when there are in reality only -------.

(A) analyses. .hypotheses

(B) correlations. .digressions

(C) distinctions. .gradations

(D) complications. .ambiguities

(E) conjectures. .approximations

-> "discrete" is the key word. This word means "If discrete categories are necessary, absolute distinctions are necessary. And "in reality" means opposite to absolute distinctions. So (C) is proper.