Login form
GRE - Sentence Completion - Test 26
Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
1.
A. flourishing - whimB. starving - tenet
C. skulking - dogma
D. thriving - principles
E. pedestrian - ideas
2. With its personal touches, including twice-daily housekeeping and round-the-clock concierge service, the hotel has a delightful your-wish-is-our-command air about the place, without the __________ you might find __________ .
A. ornamentation - somewhere elseB. stuffiness - elsewhere
C. artifacts - missing
D. dankness - beyond
E. insubordination - away
3. Six years ago this ___________, Asian leaders met in cold, rainy Vancouver to discuss the region's worsening financial ___________.
A. time - calamityB. moment - distress
C. week - crisis
D. today - tragedy
E. day - emergency
4. At the school, she wrote and directed several ___________ productions about the Everglades and its ___________ as well as tributes to historic Floridians, such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
A. physical - faunaB. theatrical - animals
C. musical - locations
D. creative - flora
E. prolific - alligators
5. The academic services division was ___________ to providing quality support to the students and staff through the provision of specialist administrative ___________.
A. submitted - servicesB. committed - assistance
C. destined - debate
D. conniving - help
E. striving - contact
6. The Egyptians mummified their dead because they believed that a person needed his body in the afterlife, and the better-looking the better, so it was ___________ on the priests in charge of ___________ to do a good job.
A. designated - wrappingB. selected - preserving
C. assigned - mummifying
D. doled - exacting
E. incumbent - embalming
7. Connected by a complex set of ___________ roads, the villages were defined by ditches, curbs, moats, open parklands, and working forests.
A. intersectingB. fixed
C. interlinking
D. thickened
E. dense
8. A new survey says most families aren't generally expecting to ___________ more money on holiday vacations than they did ___________ year.
A. fritter - previousB. spend - last
C. save - past
D. squander - preceding
E. invest - prior
9. All but the smallest new televisions will have to be able to receive digital television ___________ by July 2007 under a government rule upheld by a federal ___________ court on Tuesday.
A. flashes - claimsB. signs - broadcasting
C. flares - official
D. signals - appeals
E. messages - allowed
10. One study suggests that children who live in homes where the television is on most of the time ___________ have more trouble learning to read than other kids.
A. doB. may
C. should
D. also
E. cannot