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.
Given the existence of so many factions in the field, it was unrealistic of Anna Freud to expect any ________ of opinion.
#1
Although specific concerns may determine the intent of a research project, its results are often ________.
#2
To list Reilly’s achievements in a fragmentary way is ________, for it distracts our attention from the ________ themes of her work.
#3
People frequently denigrate books about recent catastrophes as morally _______ attempts to profit, from misfortune, but in my view our desire for such books, together with the venerable tradition to which they belong, ________ them.
#4
That many of the important laws of science were discovered during experiments designed to ________ other phenomena suggests that experimental results are the ________ of inevitable natural forces rather than of planning.
#5
Although in eighteenth-century England an active cultural life accompanied the beginnings of middle class consumerism, the ________ of literacy was ________ with the rise of such consumerism in the different areas of the country.
#6
The trainees were given copies of a finished manual to see whether they could themselves begin to ________ the inflexible, though tacit, rules for composing more of such instructional materials.