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.
Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of ________, is the first step in learning to be creative.
#1
As serious as she is about the bullfight, she does not allow respect to ________ her sense of whimsy when painting it.
#2
No one is ________ about Stephens; he inspires either uncritical adulation or profound ________ in those who work for him.
#3
Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of population; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no _____ this _____ view of selection.
#4
The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and ________ such illnesses.
#5
During periods of social and cultural stability, many art academies are so firmly controlled by ________ that all real creative work must be done by the ________.
#6
The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ________ as ________ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.
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