GRE - Sentence Completion - Test 13

Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

1. The team's manager, Eric Gorton has ____________ Nick Fenand in his squad for next month's qualifying match against Liechtenstein despite doubts ____________ the player's fitness.

A. included -.about
B. hospitalized - by
C. joined - on
D. removed -. over
E. replaced - concerning

2. Psychiatrists, medical doctors and __________ have used hypnosis for more than two centuries to treat __________ and illness.

A. therapists - bliss
B. psychologists - pain
C. catalysts - suffering
D. physicians - discomfort
E. physicists - torment

3. The world's most prolific aircraft builder's commercial __________ is struggling in the worst aviation downturn in history and has __________ off 35,560 of its 93,000 workers since 1999.

A. sector - paid
B. part - sent
C. division - laid
D. ward - bought
E. department - caught

4. On April 15, Sangers International, a __________ mainstay here for 112 years, told its 300 employees to stop work mid-shift because it was __________ down.

A. factious - closing
B. manufacturing - shutting
C. economic - slogging
D. economical - traipsing
E. mechanized - pulling

5. The overnight train from London to Edinburgh was an experience that reminded me how exciting that mode of ___________ can be, but how our fast-paced lives rarely ___________ the luxury of time to enjoy it.

A. transportation - condone
B. adventure - allow
C. movement - permit
D. shifting - suffice
E. travel - afford

6. In the magazine, national health surveys are taken to ___________ current research on topics such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and bipolar disorder.

A. proliferate
B. propagate
C. distance
D. further
E. dissect

7. Net margins for grocery stores were sorely ___________, so a group of usually uncooperative supermarket executives joined ___________ with a few food manufacturers to come up with a system to automate checkout stands.

A. drooping - influences
B. lowered - cogency
C. falling - teams
D. lagging - harnesses
E. sagging - forces

8. In ___________ of resolving the profound economic and social problems that continue to ___________ the nation, the president's removal last July accomplished nothing.

A. sense - butter
B. light - libel
C. coin - malign
D. means - disturb
E. terms - plague

9. Compared to economic disaster areas like Venezuela and Argentina , where the ___________ shrank by 12 percent last year, Brazil 's outlook is ___________.

A. economy - rosy
B. population - undecided
C. integration - advantageous
D. specification - ambiguous
E. profit - perilous

10. Outspoken ___________ as a teenager, he was dismissed from high school when he refused to compromise his word to a school ___________.

A. from his time - mascot
B. early - officer
C. already - teacher
D. still - regulation
E. even - principal