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.
Though it would be ________ to expect Barnard to have worked out all of the limitations of his experiment, he must be ________ for his neglect of quantitative analysis.
#1
The hierarchy of medical occupations is in many ways a ________ system; its strata remain ________ and the practitioners in them have very little vertical mobility.
#2
Noting the murder victim’s flaccid musculature and pear-like figure, she deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some ________ occupation.
#3
In Germany her startling powers as a novelist are widely ________, but she is almost unknown in the English speaking world because of the difficulties of ________ her eccentric prose.
#4
Liberty is not easy, but far better to be an ________ fox, hungry and threatened on its hill, than a ________ canary, safe and secure in its cage.
#5
Remelting old metal cans rather than making primary aluminum from bauxite ore shipped from overseas saves producers millions of dollars in ________ and production costs.
#6
Johnson never ________ to ignore the standards of decent conduct mandated by company policy if ________ compliance with instructions from his superiors enabled him to do so, whatever the effects on his subordinates.
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