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.
There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is ________ other forms.
#1
The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of ________ for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to ________ its own continental coastline.
#2
Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ________ between them.
#3
A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist’s subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling _______ the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.
#4
While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly ________ by their lively criticism.
#5
In eighth-century Japan, people who ________ wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of ________ fields.
#6
If duty is the natural ________ of one‘s ________ the course of future events, then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.