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In the columnist`s argument, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage mentions which of the following as an effect of bird plumage?
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The author of the passage is primarily concerned with
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The reference to a “larger target” serves primarily to suggest why a
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Though we live in an era of stunning scientific achievement, many otherwise educated people remain indifferent to or contemptuous of such achievement, even going so far as to _____ their ignorance of basic physics.
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The Labrador duck is one of the most _____ extinct birds: although there are a fair number of specimens, few have yielded reliable data and little is known about the species` breeding patterns.
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Despite the _____ of medical information available through e-mail, the Internet, and mobile devices, not many patients are taking advantage of the potential of electronic communications for health-related needs.
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The building affairs minister rightly recognizes that the current planning system-under which the government controls every aspect of construction-creates disastrous developments, but she is wrong to propose the opposite: the wholesale (i)_____ of the building market. Such a complete (ii)_____ of responsibility on the part of the state can hardly be in the public`s interest.
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Anne Carson`s book Nox is, very deliberately, _____ literary object-the opposite of an e-reader, which is designed to vanish in your palm as you read on a train.
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Early practitioners of the natural sciences developed methods to remove distortions caused by either the research environment or the researcher. Such methods, especially with respect to the researcher, were considered to (i)_____ those (ii)_____ subjectivity whose unbridled expression was thought to (iii)_____ research.
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A cure for the common cold has been so elusive that it has become a modern symbol of _____.
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Space is often referred to as the final frontier, as the only realm of which humankind has still to gain substantial understanding, yet the ocean is also another vast area about which our knowledge is _____.
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There are two opposing theories about mountain formation and climate over the past 40 million years: either the surge of mountain building (i)_____ the global cooling or vice versa. The first of these two theories asserts that widespread mountain building cooled the earth as a result of the (ii)_____ mountains and climate. For example, mountain glaciers tend to be (iii)_____: once established, they increase the reflectivity of the surface, thus lowering temperatures and allowing more ice to form.
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Britain`s deteriorating economy after 1945 was (i)_____ by politicians who favored the manufacturing sector over the service sector: rather than attempting to (ii)_____ the decline of manufacturing, they should have promoted service industries.
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Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the _____ of society, the conventionality of academy.
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In modern times, friendship has become a _____ relationship: a form of connection in terms of which all are understood and against which all are measured.
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While normal floods resulting from usual monsoon rainfall are _____ the growth of crops, recently there has been an increase in the frequency of high-intensity floods that do not have such welcome effects.
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The ambassador`s critical remarks seemed to be less a product of _____ and more the careless utterances of a fatigued or undisciplined individual.
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