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.
Only by ignoring decades of mismanagement and inefficiency could investors conclude that a fresh infusion of cash would provide anything more than a ________ solution to the company’s financial woes.
#1
Although the discovery of antibiotics led to great advances in clinical practice, it did not represent a ________ bacterial illness, for there are some bacteria that cannot be _______treated with antibiotics.
#2
A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more ________ the ideas.
#3
Jones was unable to recognize the contradictions in his attitudes that were obvious to everyone else; even the hint of an untruth was________ to him, but he ________ serious trouble by always cheating on his taxes.
#4
Even though the general’s carefully qualified public statement could hardly be ________, some people took ________ it.
#5
Though feminist in its implications, Yvonne Rainer’s 1974 film ________ the filmmaker’s active involvement in feminist politics.
#6
The chances that a species will ________ are reduced if any vital function is restricted to a single kind of organ; ________ by itself possesses an enormous survival advantage.