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.
The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to ________ its significance.
#1
Their mutual teasing seemed ________, but in fact it ________ a long-standing hostility.
#2
Noting that few employees showed any ________ for complying with the corporation’s new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be ________, at best.
#3
It has been argued that politics as ________, whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.
#4
In many science fiction films, the opposition of good and evil is portrayed as a ________ between technology, which is ________, and the errant will of a depraved intellectual.
#5
Although scientists claim that the seemingly ________ language of their reports is more precise than the figurative language of fiction, the language of science, like all language, is inherently ________.
#6
In recent decades the idea that Cezanne influenced Cubism has been caught in the ________ between art historians who credit Braque with its invention and those who________ Picasso.