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.
Her ________ should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.
#1
Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases; consequently, hereditary diseases that are ________ would be expected to be very ________, but, surprisingly, they are not.
#2
Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been ________ by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy’s underlying assumptions.
#3
During the opera’s most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra’s conductor seemed ________, without necessary relation to what had gone before.
#4
In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears ________, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ________ creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.
#5
During the 1960’s assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution to widespread ________ it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose ________ was both imminent and welcome.
#6
Documenting science’s ________ philosophy would be ________, since it is almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations.