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Thursday, August 1, 2013

3 Blank GRE Text Completion


Text completion exercises are not as available as reading comprehensions in the preparation market- at least not qualitatively , partly due to the novelty of it. For text completion exercises , the best availing source up to now is Ets offical guide. Today we are going to practise some three blank text completion- perhaps the most formidable one for many. But it might be time consuming but not hard as many might think. The strategy is same as single blank- read the sentence, get the idea of the sentence structure, predict, match!!.And ,off course, there is not fixed blank to start, just do the blank first which is more predictable, some time the other clue may be lies on it. You can download ets guide from this link-

The Official Guide to the GRE® revised General Test, Second Edition

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TEXT COMPLETION EXERCISES:

1.
Earlier time, production statistics for beer are widely------------------, speaking to its lack of standing in the American beverage rotation. Later, however, a number of social and technological advancements made beer an------------------- option for drinkers. Additionally, wages were on the rise, -----------------workers the economic means to purchase a beer pack after work.

Available
Hatred
Depriving
Unavailable
Fashionable
Deceiving
Enviable
Appealing
Affording

2.
A total pessimist, obsessed by the many horrors of world events and especially by man’s cruelty to man and even to animals, Beckett had a -----------------------to our short lives on this planet and our attraction to wars, killing and cruelty and tendency to dominate others. But this -----------------was eerie in the midst of ---------------------vision dominated in his time.

Negative attitude
Obfuscation
Buoyant  
Positive vision
Observation
Cynical
Pragmatic view
Jargon
Panglossian

3.
A debut novelist rejected by publishers 47 times has described how he was ------------------- when he found out he had been long-listed for the world’s most prestigious literary prize. Yet, this did nothing for him as publishers remain skeptical about him who is notorious for writing ---------------------story in the time of more -----------------------------society.

Crying
Lustful
Immoral
Dumbfounded
Moral
Puritan
Sadistic
Charismatic
Heretical

4.
It might seem impossible to estimate how many different bugs live in a nearby field—or how many types of birds live in a forest. But wildlife biologists are -----------------determining the number of different species in a given habitat. It might sound challenging but---------------; this can help us understand how healthy the habitat is. Likewise, it has many--------------------- in examining the biodiversity of bugs and other small invertebrates in the nature.

Inured  to
Unchallengeable 
Controversies
Floundering in
Important
Cautions
Faltering on
Trivial
Implications

5.
This method does give Reilly ample time to make his project efficient, but it is also ----------- of the retarding effects of the scintillating effect, the aim of which is not so much progress but rather a ----------------exploration of a place’s comic possibilities — in his case, a --------------one, as he has manipulated the method so craftily that no foibles are noticeable.

Beneficiary
Useful
Devious
Dictatorial  
Desultory
Exhaustive
Emblematic
Auspicious
Artless

6.
Researchers have successfully---------------- magnetic probes –vacancy centers — a step towards using them to perform quantum calculations. Yet, such magnetic probes are very sensitive to small temperature fluctuations. But researchers have begun to turn that potential ---------------------- into strength by using the probes as precise thermometers, and now many scientists ------------------- employed this technique in their research.

Manipulated
Foibles  
Fruitfully
Cracked down
Valor
Sweepingly
Withered
Robustness
Woefully

7.
Memory seems------------------------------:  memories of past hardly adjusts to new memory experienced by human. Now, a new set of experiments, led by MIT neuroscientists Steve Ramirez’s lab, shows that this needn’t be the case. Using a stunning set of molecular neuroscience techniques, these scientists have captured specific memories of past in mice, added new memories to them, and shown that the mice behave -----------------------------with these new, false, implanted memories. Thus, memory engineering might have big ---------------, perhaps someday, in human health and society too.

Untouchable
Row
Drawbacks
Irreconcilable
In accord
Implications
Unaffectionate
Discord
Casualty


8.
 The French mathematical economist Léon Walras anticipated inventing a physics of social behavior that would be comparable to Isaac Newton’s laws of motion.  Walras devised just such a theory, but it was--------------------------. Walras’s theory was based upon a ------------------------rather than a pragmatic thinking. This complicated, assumption-heavy doomed theory led Walras to comment that such idea of inventing a physics of social behavior -----------------------yet provable.

Successfully employed
Fanciful  concept
Improbable
Fatally  flawed
Illustrious theory
Happenstance
Thoroughly researched
Undammed  idea
Fluke

ANSWERS:
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2.ABA
3.BAB
4.ABC
5.CBA
6.AAA
7.BBB
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