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.
Psychology has slowly evolved into an ________ scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.
#1
A major goal of law, to deter potential criminals by punishing wrongdoers, is not served when the penalty is so seldom invoked that it ________ to be a _______ threat.
#2
When people are happy, they tend to give ________ interpretations of events they witness: the eye of the beholder is ________ by the emotions of the beholder.
#3
Even those who disagreed with Carmen’s views rarely faulted her for expressing them, for the positions she took were as ________ as they were controversial.
#4
New research on technology and public policy focuses on how seemingly ________ design features generally over looked in most analyses of public works projects or industrial machinery, actually ________ social choices of profound significance.
#5
Paradoxically, Robinson’s excessive denials of the worth of early works of science fiction suggest that she has become quite ________ them.
#6
Cezanne’s delicate watercolor sketches often served as ________ or a subject, a way of gathering fuller knowledge before the artist’s final engagement of the subject in an oil painting.
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