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.
Animals that have tasted unpalatable plants tend to ________ them afterward on the basis of their most conspicuous features, such as their flowers.
#1
As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only ________ government records to see ________ evidence of the failure of such opinions in many fields.
#2
In scientific inquiry, it becomes a matter of duty to expose a ________ hypothesis to every possible kind of ________.
#3
Charlotte Salomon’s biography is a reminder that the currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by ________ public events, retain their hold on the ________ recording them.
#4
Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very ________, have certain characteristics in common.
#5
Although Johnson _____ great enthusiasm for his employees’ project, in reality his interest in the project was so ________ as to be almost non-existent.
#6
Not all the indicators necessary to convey the effect of depth in a picture work simultaneously; the picture’s illusion of ________ three-dimensional appearance must therefore result from the viewer’s integration of various indicators perceived ________.