You have already taken an important step toward improving your score. You have shown your commitment by purchasing this book. Now what you need to do is complete each exercise, study the answers, and watch your ability to solve sentence completions increase. | 501 Sentence Completion Questions Chapter 16 135 Chapter 17 143 Chapter 18 151 Chapter 19 159 Chapter 20 169 viii Introduction Welcome to 501 Sentence Completion Questions This book is designed to help you prepare for the verbal and reading sections of many assessment and entrance exams. By completing the 501 sample items offered here and by studying their answer explanations you will develop the skills necessary to tackle each type of sentence completion question. You will also improve your vocabulary and your process of elimination skills. Sentence completions test your ability to use the information found in complex but incomplete sentences in order to correctly complete the sentences. Sentence completions test two separate aspects of your verbal skills your vocabulary and your ability to follow the internal logic of sentences. These sentences are often quite complex. Fortunately there are some strategies that will greatly increase your score on these questions. Each of these questions has one blank or on some tests two blanks within a single sentence. Often the sentences are long and difficult to follow but with practice you can learn to master them. ix 501 Sentence Completion Questions Many standardized tests including high school and college entrance exams and civil service exams use sentence completion questions to test vocabulary and logic. Some of the alphabet soup of exams that contain sentence completions are the SAT I exam PSAT NMSQT exam GRE General test TOEFL TOEIC exams ISEE GRT You might wonder what kinds of strategies you can use to master sentence completions. When it comes to sentence completions the word that does not appear is the key to the meaning of the sentence. The words that do appear offer clues to the missing word. If you can find out how the words that appear are connected you can find the correct answer. This means that you must know more than just the meaning of the words involved. You must also understand the logic of the sentence.
