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.
The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be ________ further education.
#1
In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ________ than a similar article intended for ________ use.
#2
Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the ________of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its ________ before he acted.
#3
Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: he ________ childhood processes from adult ________.
#4
While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers – the incomprehension of her colleagues – octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to _____ the triumph of her once _____ scientific theories.
#5
Broadway audiences have become inured to ________ and so ________ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
#6
Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ________ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.