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Monday, July 15, 2013

Text Completion drill






1.The injustice inherent in the killing of Martin was not entirely...................., as moral depravity is in outbreak. Moreover, the chief justice is caught in scandalous video; this is just one of the cases of moral decline in current society. But the president vehemently.....................that law is equal for everyone, no one would be unpunished for their ...................activity.

A. banal
D. declared
G. pecuniary
B. unusual
E. denied
H. licentious
C. sere
F. decant
I. benefactor







 2.Occasionally, they entertained themselves with --------------- stunts, like running from a 200-degree sauna to touch the South Pole while wearing nothing but shoes.

A. weary
B. latitude
C. plastic
D. daredevil
E. litigation

3.Eventually, workers who were predisposed to seasonal affective disorder were ------------. The darkness and cold caused sleepiness and memory problems, and over time some of the winter-overs became disoriented and -------------------.


A. Affected
D. healthy
B. diverted
E. lethargic
C. loped
F. robust


4.The financial crisis  inspired a shallow but --------------- revival of Marxist analysis in academic life.

A. ignorable
B. superficial
C. significant
D. handy
E. liable

5.Even where demands have seemed social democratic, many of the more creative and disruptive protests fueling them have been ---------------.

A. disciplined
B. martinet
C. anarchist
D. tremor
E. republican

 6.Like Marxist analysis, which often seeks to--------------- the real tendencies of history beneath the surface of the quotidian, anarchist theory, too, has an unmasking strategy : it sees ---------------- activity where one might be tempted to see stasis and homogeneity.


A. unmask
D. lend
B. conceal
E. fervent
C. enumerate
F. static


7.And yet Simone's methodology, because it places a special emphasis on diverting the subject, renders some of her more expansive claims about the novelty of the movements harder to be --------------. She tends too often to ------------- those aspects of her analysis that suggest missteps, setbacks, and failures.



A. unlikely
D. disabuse
B. trustworthy
E. obfuscate
C. obliterate
F. interpret

For STRATEGY check this link: TEXT COMPLETION STRATEGY
ANSWER:
1.BDH
2.D
3.AE
4.C
5.C
6.AE
7.BE

5 comments:

  1. If you have any question, comment here!

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  2. Please explain the answer to question 1 (why not 'banal', why 'unusual')
    Please explain the question no. 6 (sentence surpassed my mind... :) )

    Cheers :D

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    1. hey FIRST of all , I will be giving explanations for all of these questions in next post!!
      For question 1, if you read full first sentence, then you will notice that ""moral depravity is common"" so the injustice is common as well, but there is word "not"" that means "uncommon " is our prediction!! so unusual matches!!
      banal is the opposite of what we need!!

      for 6,
      For the first blank, clue is ""anarchist theory, too, has an unmasking strategy"" too is the clue here and "unmasking "", so first bank should be unmask !!
      for the second blank, we need a word opposite of ""homogeneity and stasis""
      fervent makes sense that!!
      got it?

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  3. Hii, I have answered 90% of the questios. Is the difficulty level same in actual GRE test or is it more difficult than this???
    pls rply

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  4. Hey, it is great that you have answered 90 % of the questions. And yeah, this drill was easier than what you might see in real GRE.You might see more difficult question in ets exam, don' worry!!...Just practice..

    And you might look this others drill which are much harder___:

    http://exploregre.blogspot.com/2013/08/3-blank-gre-text-completion_1.html

    http://exploregre.blogspot.com/2013/08/sentence-equivalence-drill-1.html

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