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GRE Verbal Text Completion

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This composer has never courted popularity: her rugged modernism seems to defy rather than to __________ the audience

a)

ignore

b)

discount

c)

woo

d)

teach

e)

cow

2.

The sight of a single actor portraying several characters in the same scene is no longer a shock to the average moviegoer, such special-effects trickery having become so _____________.

a)

expensive

b)

specialized

c)

sinister

d)

commonplace

e)

unreliable

3.

Early studies often concluded that the public was __________ the propagandistic influence of mass communications, but one recent study indicates that, on the contrary, mass communications seldom produce marked changes in social attitudes or actions.

a)

unaware of

b)

scornful of

c)

susceptible to

d)

unimpressed by

e)

coping with

4.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AF

(a)  

5.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AF

(a)  

6.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AFG

(a)  

7.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AF

(a)  

8.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AF

(a)  

9.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AF

(a)  

10.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AFG

(a)  

11.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AFG

(a)  

12.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AFG

(a)  

13.

In searching for norms in the sense of authoritative standards of what ought to be, rather than in the sense of what is average and thus can be considered normal, normative ethics aims to _____________.

a)

predict

b)

mitigate

c)

question

d)

dictate

e)

personalize

14.

When she first came to France from Bulgaria, she was hardly the _________ student she later made herself out to be, since she had access to considerable family wealth

a)

naïve

b)

precocious

c)

impecunious

d)

ambitious

e)

assiduous

15.

Researchers have observed chimpanzees feigning injury in order to influence other members of the group, thus showing that the capacity to _________ is not uniquely human

a)

cooperate

b)

instruct

c)

conspire

d)

dissemble

e)

dominate

16.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AF

(a)  

17.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AF

(a)  

18.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AF

(a)  

19.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AFG

(a)  

20.

Do not separate your answers with a comma. Use only capital letters

E.g. AFG

(a)