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.
This project is the first step in a long-range plan of research whose ________ goal, still many years off, is the creation of a new prototype.
#1
Eric was frustrated because, although he was adept at making lies sound ________, when telling the truth, he ________ the power to make himself believed.
#2
In certain forms of discourse such as the parable, the central point of a message can be effectively communicated even though this point is not ________.
#3
Always circumspect, she was reluctant to make judgments, but once arriving at a conclusion, she was ________ in its defense.
#4
The techniques now available to livestock breeders will continue to be ________, but will probably be ________ by new ones under development.
#5
Any population increase beyond a certain level necessitates greater ________ vegetable foods; thus, the ability of a society to choose meat over cereals always arises, in part, from ________ the number of people.
#6
Ethologists are convinced that many animals survive through learning—but learning that is ________ their genetic programming, learning as thoroughly ________ as the most instinctive of behavioral responses.