GRE Text Completion Examples 2

Practice Your GRE Text Completions!

Are you prepared for the Revised GRE Verbal? I hope so! The Revised GRE looks much different from the GRE exam of the past, where analogies were king! The Revised GRE Verbal section has received a major overhaul, and text completion questions are just one of the types of questions you'll face as you square off against it. These bad boys are much different than you may have seen elsewhere. Here, instead of just one sentence with one blank, you can receive up to three blanks in a sentence with three answer choices per blank. And no, there is no partial credit, either! It's all right or it's all wrong.

Yep! It's time to practice. Here is the second set of GRE Text Completion Questions so you can get a feel for the questions you'll see on game day. My explanations, which are linked to below, are thorough and can help you see exactly where you've made your error. For those of you who'd like a bit more practice, here is my first set of text completions with explanations: GRE Text Completions 1.

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All the questions below have been reprinted from ETS' Official Guide to the Revised GRE.

GRE Text Completions Practice 2

Directions: For each question with more than one blank, select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. For each question with only one blank, select the entry that best completes the sentence.

Question 1

What readers most commonly remember about John Stuart Mill's classic exploration of the liberty of thought and discussion concerns the danger of (i) _____________: in the absence of challenge, one's opinions, even when they are correct, grow weak and flabby. Yet Mill had another reason for encouraging the liberty of thought and discussion: the danger of partiality and incompleteness. Since one's opinions, even under the best circumstances, tend to (ii) _____________, and because opinions opposed to one's own rarely turn out to be completely (iii) _____________, it is crucial to supplement one's opinions with alternative points of view.

Question 1 Explanation

Question 2

Ironically, the writer so wary of (i) _____________ was (ii) _____________ with ink and paper; his novel running to 2,500 shagreen-bound folio pages – was a fortune in stationery at the time.

Question 2 Explanation

Question 3

Just as the author's book on eels is often a key text for courses in marine vertebrate zoology, their ideas on animal development and phylogeny _____________ teaching in this area.

Question 3 Explanation

Question 4

Mechanisms develop whereby every successful species can _____________ its innate capacity for population growth with the constraints that arise through its interactions with the natural environment.

Question 4 Explanation

Question 5

Wills argues that certain malarial parasites are especially (i) _____________ because they have more recently entered humans than other species and therefore have had (ii) _____________ time to evolve toward (iii) _____________. Yet there is no reliable evidence that the most harmful Plasmodium species has been in humans for a shorter time than less harmful species.

Question 5 Explanation

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