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.
Created to serve as perfectly as possible their workaday________, the wooden storage boxes made in America’s Shaker communities are now ________ for their beauty.
#1
In order to ________ her theory that the reactions are ________, the scientist conducted many experiments, all of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of the second.
#2
The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to ________ accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news.
#3
William James lacked the usual ________ death; writing to his dying father, he spoke without ________ about the old man’s impending death.
#4
Current data suggest that, although ________ states between fear and aggression exist, fear and aggression are as distinct physiologically as they are psychologically.
#5
It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever ________ others, in the end, all his ________ has only worked against him.
#6
Famous among job seekers for its ________, the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses and such ________ as low-interest home mortgages and company cars.