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GRE Text Completion practice

Twenty original Text Completion questions, from single-blank to three-blank, each with a worked explanation of why the right word fits and the tempting wrong ones do not. Free, no signup.

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Question 1 of 20
Although the committee had expected the new policy to be met with resistance, the staff received it with surprising ________, raising no objections at all.

For the following question, select one entry for the blank from its corresponding column of choices. Fill the blank in the way that best completes the text.

Blank (i)
How to approach it

A method for Text Completion.

Read for the sentence's logic first

Before looking at the choices, decide what the blank must mean from the sentence's own clues: the contrast words, the cause and effect, the examples. The right answer is set by the sentence, not by which word sounds most sophisticated.

Predict, then match

Put your own word in the blank, then find the choice closest to it. This stops you from being talked into a wrong answer that merely sounds impressive.

Two and three blanks interact

Lock the blank you are most sure of first, then use it to constrain the others. There is no partial credit, so every blank has to be right.

Questions

Text Completion, answered.

One, two, or three. Single-blank questions give five choices; two and three-blank questions give three choices per blank, and you must get every blank right for the point.
No. A two or three-blank question is all-or-nothing, so confirm that your full set of choices makes the whole sentence coherent.
Vocabulary matters, but the sentence's logic narrows the choices first. Strong test takers use the structure to eliminate, then let vocabulary decide between the survivors.
Text Completion has one correct choice per blank. Sentence Equivalence has one blank, six choices, and two correct answers that produce the same meaning.