GRE Text Completion Question 406
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Until recently many astronomers believed that asteroids travel about the solar system (i)_____satellites. These astronomers assumed this because they considered asteroid-satellite systems inherently (ii)_____. Theoreticians could have told them otherwise: even minuscule bodies in the solar system can theoretically have satellites, as long as everything is in proper scale. If a bowling ball were orbiting about the Sun in the asteroid belt, it could have a pebble orbiting it as far away as a few hundred radii (or about 50 meters) (iii)_____the pebble to the Sun's gravitational pull.
Blank(i) | Blank(ii) | Blank(iii) |
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A unaccompanied by | D scathing | G without losing |
B unprecedented by | E unstable | H before reaping |
C unparalleled by | F soporific | I as well as easing |