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SECTION 3
This ction consists of five different types of questions: Sentence Completion, Analogy, Antonym, Text Completion with Two or Three Blanks (this is a new question type; you will typically e only one of the questions on your GRE), and Reading Comprehension. To answer the questions, lect the best answer from the answer choices given. Circle the letter or word(s) of your choice.
cookieThis passage is adapted from The American Republic: Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by O. A. Brownson, 1866.
The ancients summed up the whole of human wisdom in the maxim "Know Thylf,"
Line and certainly there is for an individual no more important and no more difficult
knowledge, than knowledge of himlf. Nations are only individuals on a larger scale.
They have a life, an individuality, a reason, a conscience, and instincts of their own,
(5) and have the same general laws of development and growth, and, perhaps, of decay, as
the individual man. Equally important, and no less difficult than for the individual, is it
for a nation to know itlf, understand its own existence, its own powers and faculties,
rights and duties, constitution, instincts, tendencies, and destiny. A nation has a
spiritual as well as a material existence, a moral as well as a physical existence, and is
(10) subjected to internal as well as external conditions of health and virtue, greatness and
儿童节的英文 grandeur, which it must in some measure understand and obrve, or become lethargic
and infirm, stunted in its growth, and end in premature decay and death.
Among nations, no one has more need of full knowledge of itlf than the
United States, and no one has, to this point, had less. It has hardly had a distinct
(35) consciousness of its own national existence, and has lived the naive life of the
child, with no vere trial, till the recent civil war, to throw it back on itlf
**pel it to reflect on its own constitution, its own parate existence,
erotic individuality, tendencies, and end. The defection of the slaveholding States,
and the fearful struggle that has followed for national unity and integrity, have
(20) brought the United States at once to a distinct recognition of itlf, and forced it
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to pass from thoughtless, careless, heedless, reckless adolescence to grave and
reflecting manhood. The nation has been **pelled to study itlf, and
from now on must act from reflection, understanding, science, and statesmanship,
not from instinct, impul, passion, or caprice, knowing well what it does, andsket
(25) why it does it. The change that four years of civil war have wrought in the nation
is great, and is sure to give it the riousness, the gravity, and the dignity it has so
far lacked.
1. Which of the following statements best summarizes the main point of the first paragraph?
A. Understanding one's own strengths and weakness is a difficult yet important task, n
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ot only for individuals, but for nations as a whole.
B. The spirituality of individuals should be dictated by the nation's government.
C. **paring of a nation to a person is inaccurate and leads only to confusion and misreprentation.
D. The United States was founded upon a principle of law that originated from the ancient world.
E. (E) A nation's moral existence is governed by external conditions only.
2. The author's argument is developed primarily by the u of
A. an example of one nation's success
B. an analogy between man and nation
C. a critique of the United States Constitution
D. a warning against civil war
E. (E) a personal account of lf-realization
3. REVIVE : EXHAUSTED ::(A) reward : superior
gianniversace(B) refer : adjacent
(C) replace : lost
(D) rejuvenate : drained
(E) resume : interrupted
4. DISCONCERTED:(A) compod
(B) mirly
(C) relentless
(D) sheepish
(E) perturbed
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5. Some **plained that the school board was ______ , focusing on short-term goals while ignoring the long-term benefits of classroom reorganization.(A) ambiguous
(B) myopic
(C) perceptive
(D) discerning
(E) replete
The Lincoln Memorial, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is one
