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.
Nearly two-thirds of the country’s mushroom crop is produced by 160 growers in a single county, the greatest ________ growers anywhere.
#1
The disjunction between educational objectives that stress independence and individuality and those that emphasize obedience to rules and cooperation with others reflects a ________ that arises from the values on which these objectives are based.
#2
It is ________ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to eliminate a totally ________ disease.
#3
Dramatic literature often ________ the history of a culture in that it takes as its subject matter the important events that have shaped and guided the culture.
#4
The legislators of 1563 realized the ________ of trying to regulate the flow of labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part of the statute dealt with establishing wages.
#5
Scientists who are on the cutting edge of research must often violate common sense and make seemingly ________ assumptions because existing theories simply do not ________ newly observed phenomena.
#6
The ________ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class Rousseau was all the more because he showed so little respect for them.