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.
Nonviolent demonstrations often create such tensions that a community that has constantly refused to ______ its injustices is forced to correct them: the injustices can no longer be ______.
#1
Since 1813 reaction to Jane Austen’s novels has oscillated between ______ and condescension; but in general later writers have esteemed her works more highly than did most of her literary ______.
#2
There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been ________ to the extent that they no longer ________ ecologists.
#3
Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the National Institutes of Health, human genes are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which ________ treatments are unsatisfactory.
#4
It was her view that the country’s problems had been ________ by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.
#5
Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible ________: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.
#6
The actual ________ of Wilson’s position was always ________ by his refusal to compromise after having initially agreed to negotiate a settlement.