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.
Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the means by which people attain mental health, seems to be looking for ________ answers: a way to close the book on at least a few questions about human nature.
#1
The well-trained engineer must understand fields as diverse as physics, economics, geology, and sociology; thus, an overly ________ engineering curriculum should be avoided.
#2
Although supernovas are among the most ________ of cosmic events, these stellar explosions are often hard to ________, either because they are enormously far away or because they are dimmed by intervening dust and gas clouds.
#3
During the widespread fuel shortage, the price of gasoline was so that suppliers were generally thought to be ________ the consumer.
#4
Art ________ science, but that does not mean that the artist must also be a scientist; an artist uses the fruits of science but need not ________ the theories from which they derive.
#5
Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers could be an effective ________ to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of employers with poor safety records.
#6
Literature is inevitably a ________ rather than ________ medium for the simple reason that writers interpose their own vision between the reader and reality.