Sentence
Completion
Topic: Sentence Completion
Strategy Used: Picking up on Clues
To do well on sentence completions, you need to see
how a sentence fits together.
Clue words help you do that. The more clues you get,
the clearer the sentence becomes,
and the better you can predict what goes in the blanks.
Consider this example:
Though some have derided
it as _______, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
has actually become a respectable scientific endeavor.
Here, though
is an important clue. Though contrasts the way some
have derided, belittled, or ridiculed the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence with the fact that that
search has become respectable. Another clue is actually.
Actually completes
the contrast — though some see the search one way, it
has actually become respectable.
You know that whatever goes in the blank must complete
the contrast implied by the word though. So for the
blank, you need something that describes the opposite
of a respectable scientific endeavor. A word such as
useless or trivial would be a good prediction for the
blank.
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