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 spellings of many Old English words have been ________ in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed.
#1
The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly ________ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.
#2
For centuries animals have been used as ________ for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans.
#3
Social tensions among adult factions can be ________ by politics, but adolescents and children have no such ________ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
#4
The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ________ between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are ________ to the maintenance of community.
#5
Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as ________ thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
#6
To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too ________: any effective intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to ________ thought processes that did not originate with them.