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The information in the passage suggests that We Fed Them Cactus includes which of the following?
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Noriko Iwasaki argues that second-language learners studying abroad typically learn mostly informal language; consequently upon return their second-language speech is often marked by __________ informal language or a haphazard mix of informal and formal language.
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Since the results of the latest survey were __________, earlier results gave researchers little relevant experience for interpreting the new data.
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The best scientists are on guard against premature enthusiasm for a theory, knowing full well that even the most __________ data may well disappoint.
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With no artist in any art form is the life __________ the work, exactly; still, each informs the other, and illumination of the dynamic between them is the biographer`s job.
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument given?
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For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
The passage implies that a problem with "ostentatiously strong and overconfident" architecture for art museums is that viewers will
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For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
The passage points to which of the following as criteria by which art museum curators should be evaluated?
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "clues"?
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According to the passage, the "limestone samples" allowed Aigner to establish
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Ethologists are now seriously considering crediting some nonhuman animals not just with raw, basic emotional states but also with __________ ones, including envy and empathy.
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Wolfe credited Talese with stirring a revolution, a pronouncement that cannot be considered __________, so groundbreaking was Talese`s method of framing and developing his factual short stories.
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No one would suggest that we might enhance our democracy simply by tuning in to the infinity of conversations eternally buzzing away among us, or, by the same token, that we might (i)_____ our politics simply by encouraging more talk. In the era of the Internet, no further (ii)_____ loquaciousness is necessary.
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The natural landscape on which we live represents a temporary (i)_____ building and destroying forces. Erosional forces are powerful enough to reduce all the continents to broad, rolling plains in only a few million years. In most places, however, this reduction is (ii)_____ tectonic and volcanic forces.
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Although the body of work by pre-Islamic Arabic poet al-Khansā` consists almost exclusively of elegies, it would be (i)_____ to draw from this fact inferences about the poet`s personal preoccupations: elegy was the predominant genre for women poets of her time, providing al-Khansā` a way to demonstrate her (ii)_____ a set of generic conventions. If the convention for women was to write elegies and al-Khansā` wanted to be a (iii)_____ poet, then she would produce a great number of elegies.
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The author mentions the length of time Native Americans had been hunting deer primarily in order to
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The passage suggests which of the following about Seton`s estimate of the precolonial whitetail deer population in North America?
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According to the passage, compared to critics trained in "historicist and feminist criticism," earlier critics of Austen were
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According to the passage, the "present essay" parallels Siskin`s study in which of the following ways?
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For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about the concept of "feminine Romanticism"?
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