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.
After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as ________ to increasingly expensive conventional housing.
#1
Just as such apparently basic things as rocks, clouds, and clams are, in fact, intricately structured entities, so the self, too, is not an “elementary particle,” but is ________ construction.
#2
Considering how long she had yearned to see Italy, her first reaction was curiously ________.
#3
The successful ________ of an archaeological site requires scientific knowledge as well as cultural ________.
#4
As painted by Constable, the scene is not one of bucolic ________; rather it shows a striking emotional and intellectual ________.
#5
Our times seem especially ________ bad ideas, probably because in throwing off the shackles of tradition, we have ended up being quite ________ untested theories and untried remedies.
#6
Although he attempted repeatedly to ________ her of her conviction of his insincerity, he was not successful; she remained ________ in her judgment.