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 senator’s reputation, though ________ by false allegations of misconduct, emerged from the ordeal ________.
#1
This poetry is not ________; it is more likely to appeal to an international audience than is poetry with strictly regional themes.
#2
Experienced employers recognize that business students who can ________ different points of view are ultimately more effective as managers than are the brilliant and original students who _______ dogmatically to their own formulations.
#3
Poe’s ________ reviews of contemporary fiction, which often find great merit in otherwise ________ literary gems, must make us respect his critical judgment in addition to his well-known literary talent.
#4
The significance of the Magna Carta lies not in its ________ provisions, but in its broader impact: it made the king subject to the law.
#5
The theory of cosmic evolution states that the universe, having begun in a state of simplicity and ________, has ________ into great variety.
#6
Not wishing to appear ________, the junior member of the research group refrained from ________ any criticism of the senior members’ plan for dividing up responsibility for the entire project.