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 adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing ________ with regard to onset and duration.
#1
Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so modified and enlarged that the ________design is no longer.
#2
While the delegate clearly sought to ________ the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.
#3
The old man could not have been accused of ________ his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his ________ her.
#4
A leading chemist believes that many scientists have difficulty with stereochemistry because much of the relevant nomenclature is ________, in that it combines concepts that should be kept ________.
#5
Among the many ________ of the project, expense cannot be numbered; the goals of the project’s promoters can be achieved with impressive ________.
#6
Though science is often imagined as a ________ exploration of external reality, scientists are no different from anyone else: they are________ human beings enmeshed in a web of personal and social circumstances.