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.
Although the minuet appeared simple, its ________ steps had to be studied very carefully before they could be gracefully ________ in public.
#1
The results of the experiments performed by Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown were ________ not only because these results challenged old assumptions but also because they called the ________ methodology into question.
#2
Despite the ________ of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize “pop culture” as a key for ________ the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.
#3
In the seventeenth century, direct flouting of a generally accepted system of values was regarded as ________, even as a sign of madness.
#4
Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a _________ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.
#5
Because outlaws were denied ________ under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal ________.
#6
Rather than enhancing a country’s security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country’s ________.