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Description: GRE Text Completion
Number of Questions: 12
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Directions: For the given question, select one entry for the blank to best complete the text.

With the __________ of a true believer, he had assured the kids that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat.

  1. certitude

  2. dogmatism

  3. credence

  4. softness

  5. reassurance


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Option (1): True belief can only mean conviction or certitude. So, the answer is (1). Option (2): A true believer need not be dogmatic. But he will surely have certitude. Option (3): Credence is to put faith on somebody else's statement or an explanation, which cannot be derived from the text. Option (4): 'Softness' doesn't make any sense in context. Option (5): 'Assurance' might fit in coherently, but not 'reassurance'.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks to best complete the text.

The first condition of complete health is, that each organ perform its function, unconsciously, unheeded; let any organ __(i)___ its separate existence, then already is __(ii)___ there.

  1. certitude

  2. dogmatism

  3. credence

  4. softness

  5. reassurance


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(1) The text talks about all organs performing their duty unheeded. Note the thought reverser ‘let’. ‘Support’ does not support the context.

(2) The sign of good health is every organ working in its place; any organ sounding out is derangement. Note the thought reverser ‘let’. Announce is to ‘sound out’.

(3) The word ‘explain’ is more appropriate in context of concepts, not involved in this case.

(4) If one organ announces to be separate, there is no displacement; there is derangement of health.

(5) Any organ speaking out is a sign of health problem or derangement.

(6) ‘Orderliness’ is the opposite of our prediction.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks to best complete the text.

Division of a work of art into __(i), as a poem into scenes, episodes, similes, sentences, or a picture into single figures and objects, background, foreground, etc. _(ii)_____ the work, as dividing the organism into heart, brain, nerves, muscles and so on, turns the living being into a corpse.

  1. certitude

  2. dogmatism

  3. credence

  4. softness

  5. reassurance


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(1) What follow the blank are parts, not groups. Fragmenting the art is the opposite of grouping. (2) United they stand; divided they fall. It is as true of artwork as it is of body organs. You can't divide these into 'Parts'. (3) What follow the blank are parts, not groups. We divide into parts not in areas. (4) The fragmentation completely destroys or annihilates the work. (5) The fragmentation completely destroys; it does not extirpate or root out. (6) The fragmentation completely destroys; it does not 'only disrupt'.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for the blank to best complete the text. After having a congenial journey, we had a ___________ food.

  1. musty

  2. terrible

  3. palatable

  4. frightful

  5. wholesome


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Option (1): 'Since there is no conjunction of contrast, a positive development should follow 'congenial journey'. 'Musty food' makes sense. So, (1) is incorrect. Option (2): Since there is no conjunction of contrast, a positive development should follow 'congenial journey'. 'Congenial' and 'terrible' are almost antonymous. Option (3): Since there is no conjunction of contrast, a positive development should follow 'congenial journey'. 'Palatable food' makes sense. The journey was good, and so was the food. Option (4): Since there is no conjunction of contrast, a positive development should follow 'congenial journey'. 'Frightful food' makes no sense in context. Option (5): 'Wholesome' appears quite close, but healthfulness of food is rather out of context. Nice journey, nice (palatable) food.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for the blank to best complete the text.

The ball fell straight on the vase and ___________ it down and the vase shattered into pieces.

  1. knocked

  2. overthrew

  3. hit

  4. punched

  5. whacked


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Option (1): The vase fell down and broke into pieces 'Knock down' fits well for the ball knocking the vase down. So, the answer is (1). Option (2): 'Overthrew it down' is inconsistent, ungrammatical and illogical. Option (3): Hit it 'down' is ungrammatical. Option (4): Punched is not appropriate word to express that the ball hit the vase as humans can punch or give a blow or holes can be punched. Thus, the option is ruled out. Option (5): 'Whacked' means striking with a blow. A ball cannot whack things down, humans can.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks to best complete the text.

Prolonged unemployment __(i)___ social unrest and violence. The need is to ensure social security for the _(ii)___.

  1. knocked

  2. overthrew

  3. hit

  4. punched

  5. whacked


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) The word ‘breeds’ is the correct idiomatic twin for unemployment..

(2) The word initiates refers to bring into practice or use and is inappropriate.

(3) The word ‘impacts’ does not show what unemployment does to society.

(4) Vulnerable is the correct answer. It refers to prone to or helpless.

(5) ‘Many’ is indefinite and undefined.

(6) ‘Plebians’ is a little restrictive. ‘Vulnerable makes better sense.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks to best complete the text.

It is natural to say that I am _(i)__ with an object even at moments when it is not actually before my mind, provided it has been before my mind, and will be again whenever _(ii)__ arises.

  1. knocked

  2. overthrew

  3. hit

  4. punched

  5. whacked


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(1) I am relaxed in a situation not relaxed with object. (2) If we have come across the object earlier and may come across again, we are acquainted. I am familiar with the word or topic. (3) 'Aware with' is ungrammatical. Correct usage is 'aware of' or ''acquainted with'. (4) There is no doubt; there is only the occasion or opportunity. (5) There is no problem; there is only the occasion or opportunity. (6) Occasion is the correct answer which refers to the correct time or apt moment.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks to best complete the text.

We are all aware of some of our _(i)__ dreams in which two completely opposite statements can exist side by side - very _(ii)___ in our dreams but unthinkable and illogical in our waking state.

  1. knocked

  2. overthrew

  3. hit

  4. punched

  5. whacked


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) Read the sentence carefully; note the clue words like 'unthinkable' and 'illogical' and the conjunction of contrast 'but'. The opposite of 'unthinkable' and 'illogical' should be 'acceptable'. (2) Two completely opposite statements may be 'acceptable, but not 'consistent'. (3) Note that we are not only aware but also want to relive our beautiful dreams; the passage is not talking about beautiful dreams but 'opposite statement' 'unthinkable' yet 'side by side'. (4) Two completely opposite statements may be 'acceptable' in dreams but not in waking state. (5) Note that things which are nice might not be acceptable. (6) Distinctly (adverb) does not even fit in syntactically.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for the blank to best complete the text.

Star TV makes a last ditch attempt to revive its ________ even as the overall TV scenario remains in the doldrums.

  1. capital

  2. chances

  3. fluke

  4. fortunes

  5. luck


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Option (1): 'Capital' is recovered, not revived. Option (2): You take your chances, not revive your chances. Option (3): Last ditch attempt to revive one's fluke' is illogical and ungrammatical. Option (4): 'Last ditch attempt' is the catch phrase here and it is about 'reviving'. 'A last ditch attempt' has been made to revive the fortunes, in spite of the bleak situation as far as television is concerned. So ans. has to be (4). Option (5): One tries one's luck. 'Revive one's luck' is ungrammatical.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for the blank to best complete the text.

The country's forest cover is _______ so rapidly that the night of a famine seems to be a tangible reality.

  1. tinkering

  2. depleting

  3. losing

  4. exhausting


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option (1): If famine seems to be a reality, then tinkering or trifling with it will not matter. Option (2): Depleting appropriately fits in the blank, as depletion will lead to the 'night' (adverse situation) of a famine. So, (2) is the best possible answer. Option (3): Who is 'losing'? 'Being lost' might yet have fitted in. Hence, the option can be easily eliminated. Option (4): 'Forest cover is exhausting' is ungrammatical. 'Getting exhausted' might yes fit in. Option (5): 'Denuding' does not fit in syntactically. 'Being denuded' would have been correct grammatical usage.

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks to best complete the text.

How come the policy makers never _(i)__ from preaching the principles of free market to farmers and when the same principles offer some advantages to farmers, they turn _(ii)__?

  1. knocked

  2. overthrew

  3. hit

  4. punched

  5. whacked


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) The policy makers preach free market to the farmers only as long as it suits the former. They never ‘shirk’ from preaching.

(2) ‘Learn’ from preaching makes no sense.

(4) Restrain though is a close option choice but it still does not quite mean ‘desist’.

(4)  They don’t turn green with envy or red with anger.

(5) The policy makers preach free market to the farmers only as long as it suits the former. If it does not, they will turn the other way and become protectionist.

(6) They don’t turn green with envy or red with anger.

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