GRE Text Completion : Practice Set - 2 questions

Text Completion Question Practice. Set of 2 questions

Question 1
Demand for water could rise by 55 percent, increasing __________ for supplies and resulting in 40 percent of the global population living in water-stressed areas, while plant and animal species could ________ by a further 10 percent.

a. Competition; frustration; demarcation;
b. Deteriorate; decline; extinct;

Question 2
The carbon dioxide ______ already is so large, and its lifetime in the atmosphere is so long, that even a _______ to completely carbon-free electricity couldn't stop temperatures from rising over the next 100 years.
a. Generation; reduction; burden
b. freeze; switch; amelioration

Correct Answer
Q1 : a) competion; b) decline
Q2 : a) burden; b) switch

Explanatory Answer
Question 1
Blank A
When demand for any resource increases competition for securing that resource increases automatically. Competition is the appropriate word that fits the first blank.

While non-availability of a resource will result in frustration, it will not increase frustration for supplies. Frustration is inappropriate for this blank. Increasing demarcation is a second best choice. However, competition is a better fit as the second half of the sentence talks about scarcity rather than bringing about structure to supply.

Blank B
Health could deteriorate, status could deteriorate. But species itself could not deteriorate. Hence, it is not an appropriate choice.

Numbers decline. We are talking about plant and animal population declining. The right choice.

Plant and animal species could become extinct. Becoming extinct is the use of the word. Hence, ‘extinct’ will not fit the blank.

Question 2
Blank A
Reduction does not fit the first blank because the sentence will not be logically tenable if the reduction is already so large.

Generation and burden are both plausible choices. Between the two words – generation and burden – burden fits the context better than generation. So, burden is the answer to the first blank.

Blank B
Freeze in generation of carbon di oxide makes sense. But freeze to completely carbon-free electricity does not. So, freeze is not the appropriate word. Amelioration does not fit the blank. Switch is the correct answer to the second blank.

GRE Text Completion Set

Here are a couple of text completion questions.

1. The question of whether police need a _________ to affix a GPS tracking device to a _________ vehicle has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which begins hearing arguments today.

a. warrant, license, subpoena
b. victim's, suspect’s, probate's


2. Privacy can be ________ by terrorists, human traffickers, identity thieves, and other criminals to mask illicit activity and to confer ________, from where it is only a short hop to __________.

a. accessed, exploited, threatened
b. anonymity, legitimacy, depravity
c. complicity, impunity, clemency

New GRE Quant :

More than one answer correct Questions

The new format of GRE has a set of questions that have more than one answer correct. The question may or may not specify the number of answers that are correct. You get credit only if you mark all the correct choices and none of the incorrect ones.

Here is an example.

What values of x will satisfy the inequality x^2 + 12x – 28 < 0?
a. -2 < x < 2
b. -14 < x < -12
c. -6 < x < 14
d. -2 < x < 14
e. x < -14
f. x < 2

Correct Answer: Choices A and B.

Explanation
Factorizing, we get (x + 14)(x - 2) < 0

If the expression in the left hand side of the inequality is less than 0,
either (x + 14) is positive and (x - 2) is negative or
(x + 14) is negative and (x - 2) is positive.

Case 1: (x + 14) is positive and (x - 2) is negative
i.e., (x + 14) > 0 and (x - 2) < 0
or x > -14 and x < 2
or -14 < x < 2

Case 2: (x + 14) is negative and (x - 2) is positive
i.e., (x + 14) < 0 and (x - 2) > 0
or x < -14 and x > 2. Such a number does not exist. Hence, infeasible solution

So, the range of values of x that satisfy the inequality is -14 < x < 2.

Shortcut to find the solution
If (x - a)(x - b) < 0 then x will lie between 'a' and 'b'.

Now let us go to the choices
Choice A : -2 < x < 2. Lies within -14 < x < 2. Hence, satisfies.
Choice B : -14 < x < -12. Lies within -14 < x < 2. Hence, satisfies.
Choice C: -6 < x < 14. Lies outside -14 < x < 2. Does not satisfy.
Choice D: -2 < x < 14. Lies outside -14 < x < 2. Does not satisfy.
Choice E: x < -14. Lies outside -14 < x < 2. Does not satisfy.
Choice F: x < 2. Lies outside -14 < x < 2 for values of x < -14. Does not satisfy.

So, the answer choices that are correct are A and B.

GRE Text Completion Sample

The sentence completion questions of the old format of GRE, with suitable modifications appear as text completion questions in the New Format of GRE.

In the older version, if a question sentence has two blanks, each of the 5 answer choices will have two words. In the new version, there will be 3 choices for the first blank and there will be 3 choices for the second blank. The first of the 3 choices might be correct for the first blank and the last of the 3 choices might be correct for the second blank. So, the link that was provided in the earlier version in the way in which answer choices were presented is no longer available.

It makes this set of questions that much more interesting.

Here are a couple of sample GRE Text Completion questions.

The law of war is __________ not only upon States as such but also upon individuals and, in particular, the members of their armed forces. Parties are bound by the laws of war to the extent that such ______________ does not interfere with achieving legitimate military goals
a. enforcing, forcing, binding
b. incompetence, compliance, reverses

2. Space exploration has often been used as ______________ competition for geopolitical rivalries such as the Cold War. Common ______________ for exploring space include advancing scientific research, uniting different nations, ensuring the future survival of humanity and developing military and strategic advantages against other countries.
a. an uninhibited, a proxy, an unclear
b. rejoinders, rationales, results


Answers and Explanation
Q1. With regard to the first blank, we can rule out enforcing since it doesnt make grammatical sense, and we can rule out forcing since it doesnt make logical sense. The correct choice is 'binding'

With regard to the second blank, We can rule out incompetence since it doesnt make logical sense, and we can rule out reverses since it doesnt make logical sense. The correct choice is 'compliance'

Q2. With regard to the first blank, we can rule out an uninhibited and an unclear since they dont not make logical sense. The correct choice is 'a proxy'

With regard to the second blank, we can rule out rejoinders and results since they dont make logical sense. The correct choice is 'rationales'

A set of 3 GRE Sentence Completion Questions

Here is another set of 3 sentence completion questions. This is one type of question which not only tests your knowledge of vocabulary but also tests the usage in a context.

Sentence Completion Question 1
In 2005, WAKA _______ a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against a rival, DCKickball. In the suit, WAKA claims intellectual property to the official rules of kickball, and seeks $356,000 in compensatory and _______ damages.

a. sued, considerable
b. filed, punitive
c. filled, substantial
d. submitted, small
e. signed, preemptive


Sentence Completion Question 2
Chekhov had at first written stories only for ___________ gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have ____________ the evolution of the modern short story.

a. monetary, inhibited
b. financial, influenced
c. profit, coerced
d. fiscal, checked
e. overall, stopped


Sentence Completion Question 3
3. Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder ___________ by recurrent unprovoked seizures.

a. embodied
b. speckled
c. characterized
d. symptomatic
e. caused

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3 more GRE Sentence Completion Questions

Here are another set of 3 GRE Sentence Completion Questions

Question 1
A fire, ________ started by a workman who was repairing the lead of the roof, ____________ the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
A. wantonly, created
B. deliberately, improved
C. accidentally, destroyed
D. helpfully, revealed
E. singlehandedly, circumvented


Question 2
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his ___________, formulating and ___________ the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature.
A. family, eschewing
B. peers, possessing
C. professors, denying
D. contemporaries, expressing
E. country, cataloguing


Question 3
Art is commonly understood as the act of making works (or artworks) which use the human creative _______ and which have meaning beyond simple description.
A. psyche
B. rationale
C. impulse
D. zeal
E. talent

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Set of 3 GRE Sentence Completion Practice

Question 1
In fear of assassination, Li Shimin __________ and killed his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father __________ in his favor and Shimin became Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China.

A. assassinated, descended
B. waited, succeeded
C. ambushed, abdicated
D. conspired, celebrated
E. paid, profited

Question 2
Slavery is a system in which people are the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and _________ of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand wages. In some societies it was _______ for an owner to kill a slave; in others it was a crime.

A. empowered, usual
B. void, mandatory
C. devoid, commonplace
D. imbibed, symbolic
E. deprived, legal

Question 3
While the family's finances ____________ improved with the acquisition of a new house and even the hiring of two servants, it soon became apparent Edwin was an alcoholic. Five years later, he was forced to retire and although he attempted to ___________ himself through treatment, he was never reinstated at the Rock Island Railroad.

A. tremendously, medicate
B. seemingly, rehabilitate
C. evidently, invigorate
D. arguably, strengthen
E. strongly, cure

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