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.
Hydrogen is the ________ element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.
#1
Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural ________ doing so.
#2
It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ________.
#3
The primary criterion for ________ a school is its recent performance: critics are _________ to extend credit for earlier victories.
#4
Number theory is rich in problems of an especially ________ sort: they are tantalizingly simple to state but ________ difficult to solve.
#5
In failing to see that the justice’s pronouncement merely ________ previous decisions rather than actually establishing a precedent, the novice law clerk ________ the scope of the justice’s judgment.
#6
When theories formerly considered to be ________ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ________.