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GRE Text Completion Practice Test
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For the following questions, complete the text by picking the best entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices.

GRE Text Completion Practice Test
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1. The essayist believes that the ____________ of the university’s English department could be ameliorated only by an overhaul in the school’s management.
2. Despite its obvious flaws, the economist’s plan to increase employment found many ____________, mostly because a better alternative did not seem feasible.
3. The inherent ____________ of David Foster Wallace’s novels is apparent in the proliferation of guides and supplements to his novels.
4. The patient was warned that the medical treatment, though proved to be effective, would be ____________, inducing an unshakable sense of lethargy.
5. Successful expansion of a business is as much a matter of ____________ as of hard work: the greatest work ethic will be useless if it is not performed in the service of a concrete plan.
6. The belief that professional athletes can become financially ____________ after signing lucrative contracts motivated the league’s commissioner to institute a mandatory financial-planning course.
7. The novelist’s ____________ tone puzzled readers expecting the straightforward and terse prose that characterized his previous works.
8. The discovery that the brain’s connections can change even during old age ____________ previous beliefs that the basic configuration of the brain is fixed by middle age.