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 functions of the hands, eyes, and brain are so ________ that using the hands during early childhood helps to promote the child’s entire ________ development.
#1
Before 1500 North America was inhabited by more than 300 cultural groups, each with different customs, social structures, world views, and languages; such diversity ________ the existence of a single Native American culture.
#2
That dealers ________ enough to nurture a young modern painter’s career rather than plunder it exist is not impossible, but the public’s ________ appetite for modern art makes such dealers less and less likely.
#3
In the absence of any ________ caused by danger, hardship, or even cultural difference, most utopian communities deteriorate into ________ but enervating backwaters.
#4
As Juanita argued, this new code of conduct is laughable; its principles are either ________, offering no wisdom but the obvious, or are so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action ________.
#5
Histocompatibility antigens that attack foreign tissue in the body cannot have been ________ through evolution expressly to ________ organ transplantation; on the contrary, they have been found to facilitate many essential biological functions.
#6
Their air of cheerful self-sacrifice and endless complaisance won them undeserved praise, for their seeming gallantry was wholly motivated by a ________ wish to avoid conflict of any sort.