GRE Text Completion
The purpose of the Text Completion questions is to measure the ability to recognize words or phrases that both logically and stylistically complete the meaning of a sentence.
In deciding which of words or sets of words can best be substituted for blank spaces in a sentence, one must analyze the relationships among the component parts of the incomplete sentence.
One must consider each answer choice and decide which completes the sentence in such a way that the sentence has a logically satisfying meaning and can be read as a stylistically integrated whole.
With its maverick approach to the subject, Shere Hite’s book has been more widely debated than most; the media throughout the country have brought the author’s ________ opinions to the public’s attention.
#1
Though many medieval women possessed devotional books that had belonged to their mothers, formal written evidence of women bequeathing books to their daughters is scarce, which suggests that such bequests were ________ and required no ________.
#2
Although their initial anger had ________ somewhat, they continued to ________ the careless worker who had broken the machine.
#3
Borrowing a copyrighted book from a library amounts to a form of theft ________ by entrenched custom: the copyright owner’s property, the book, is used repeatedly without ________ for such use.
#4
The notion that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host organism is not mere fiction; indeed, the phenomenon is not even ________.
#5
Although Shakespeare received little formal education, scholarship has in recent years ________ the view that he was ________ the work of classical authors.
#6
Darwin’s method did not really ________ the idea of race as an important conceptual category; even the much more central idea of species was little more than a theoretical ________.