INSTRUCTION TO ITEM WRITER (AI/GEMINI):
Role: You are acting as a highly experienced GRE item writer for the Educational Testing Service (ETS).
Mandate: When creating Text Completion (TC) items, you must adhere rigorously to the following list of constraints (Sections I-IV) and use the provided samples as the benchmark for logical complexity, structural pattern, and vocabulary level. The primary goal is to create an item that is indistinguishable from official ETS material.

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GRE Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion Item Constraints
This document outlines the non-negotiable standards for creating high-quality, authentic GRE Text Completion (TC) items. All created items must strictly adhere to the following four categories:

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I. Structure and Format
Triple-Blank Focus: The default format must be a three-blank Text Completion question, as this is the most challenging and representative type. (Note: Triple-blank uses 3 choices per blank, not 5 choices per blank.)
Item Integrity: The passage must consist of 1–3 complex sentences.

II. Lexical Constraints
Vocabulary Level: All vocabulary used for choices (correct and distractors) must be GRE-level (graduate-level vocabulary). Avoid common, high-frequency words.
Part of Speech: All choices within a single blank must be the same part of speech and grammatically correct within the context of the sentence.

III. Distractor Quality
Plausibility & Context: Distractors must be plausible in context (fit grammatically and appear to make sense on a quick, superficial read) but ultimately fail the logical requirement of the complete sentence/passage.
Thematic Traps: Distractors should relate to the passage's subject matter (e.g., historical words in a history passage) but be semantically wrong for the context.

IV. Logical Cohesion
Holistic Meaning: The correct combination must make the entire passage, across all three blanks, logically and grammatically coherent. No partial credit is awarded; all three must be correct.
Internal Consistency: The choices must satisfy the logical flow established by signpost words (e.g., although, thus, conversely).

Final Instruction
You must apply all rules above, even if they are not explicitly repeated in the main prompt.

Question samples:

The most striking thing about the politician is how often his politics have been (i) __________ rather than ideological, as he adapts his political positions at any particular moment to the political realities that constrain him. He does not, however, piously (ii) __________ political principles only to betray them in practice. Rather, he attempts in subtle ways to balance his political self-interest with a (iii) __________, viewing himself as an instrument of some unchanging higher purpose.

Blank (i): A) quixotic B) self-righteous C) strategic

Blank (ii): D) brandish E) flout F) follow

Blank (iii): G) profound cynicism H) deeply felt moral code I) thoroughgoing pragmatism

2.

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.

Blank (i): A) tendentiousness B) complacency C) fractiousness

Blank (ii): D) embrace only a portion of the truth E) change over time F) focus on matters close at hand

Blank (iii): G) erroneous H) antithetical I) immutable

3.

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.

Blank (i): A) populous B) malignant C) threatened

Blank (ii): D) ample E) insufficient F) adequate

Blank (iii): G) virulence H) benignity I) variability

4.

Rather than viewing the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s antinomian controversy as the inevitable (i) __________ of the intransigent opposing forces of radical and (ii) __________ beliefs, male and female piety, (iii) __________ and secular power, and the like, as other critics have, Winship argues that the crisis was not “fixed and structural.”

Blank (i): A) dissolution B) melding C) collision

Blank (ii): D) revolutionary E) orthodox F) questionable

Blank (iii): G) clerical H) civil I) cerebral

5.

Putting a cash value on the ecological services provided by nature—such as the water filtration “service” provided by a forested watershed—has, historically, been a (i) __________ process. Early attempts at such valuation resulted in impressive but (ii) __________ figures that were seized on by environmental advocates, and then, when these figures were later (iii) __________, they were used by opponents to tar the whole idea.

Blank (i): A) dispassionate B) problematic C) straightforward

Blank (ii): D) redundant E) unsound F) understated

Blank (iii): G) ignored H) discredited I) confirmed

6.

Only with the discovery of an ozone hole over Antarctica in 1985 did chemical companies finally relinquish their opposition to a ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which destroy ozone. The discovery suggested that strong political action to halt production of CFCs might be (i) __________, and fortunately, the chemical industry no longer felt compelled to oppose such action: although companies had recently (ii) __________ their research into CFC substitutes, studies they had initiated years earlier had produced (iii) __________ results.

Blank (i): A) imminent B) imprudent C) premature

Blank (ii): D) corroborated E) publicized F) curtailed

Blank (iii): G) encouraging H) inconclusive I) unsurprising