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.
Because it is ________ to ________ all the business costs related to employee discontent, an accurate estimate of the magnitude of these costs is not easily calculated.
#1
Consider the universal cannibalism of the sea, all of whose creatures ________ one another.
#2
How could words, confined as they individually are to certain ________ meanings specified in a dictionary, eventually come, when combined in groups, to create obscurity and actually to prevent thought from being ________?
#3
Even though they tended to be ________ strangers, fifteenth-century Europeans did not automatically associate ________ and danger.
#4
The modern age is a permissive one in which things can be said explicitly, but the old tradition of ________ dies hard.
#5
Although many findings of the Soviet and United States probes of Venus were complementary, the two sets of atmospheric results clearly could not be ________ without a major change of data or ________.
#6
While it is assumed that the mechanization of work has a ________ effect on the lives of workers, there is evidence available to suggest that, on the contrary, mechanization has served to ________ some of the traditional roles of women.