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In the argument given, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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As discussed in the passage, the literary scholars and the historians differ in which of the following ways?
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The information given, if accurate, most strongly supports which of the following hypotheses?
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Among geophysicists there was considerably less (i)_________ the proposed environment measure than the (ii)_______ media accounts of the conference would suggest: the debate was often animated but never uncivil.
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Ursula Le Guin claims that looking at schoolbooks from around 1900 can be________, given that the level of literacy and general cultural knowledge expected of a mere ten-year-old was, she notes, "rather awesome".
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According to the passage, one of the differences in the ways in which predator and prey insects are affected by the widespread use of common nonspecific insecticides is that
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According to the passage, critics approach Jane Austen`s work in biographical or historical ways for which of the following reasons?
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Recent proposals for fixing the climate have taken the form of large-scale geoengineering projects such as launching mirrors into space to reflect solar radiation away from Earth, undertakings that are vastly more (i)_____ than anything a nineteenth-century rainmaker could have cooked up. What is unclear, as one looks back at the history of weather modification research, is whether this resourceful ambition will be (ii)_____, or if, by contrast, it serves to make the scientific community's (iii)_____ that much more devastating.
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They applaud the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s, whose plethora of stars, jokes, dances witty dialogue, and general gaiety make today's offering seem _____ by comparison.
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Common and easily accessible resources (prey for predators or hosts for parasites) should be, all other things being equal, used frequently, yet in some environments apparently accessible and suitable resources remain _____.
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Shirky argues that the Internet (i)_____ the needs for hierarchical structures and the sluggish organizations that (ii)_____ them: the Internet makes it possible to do things cheaply and efficiently on one`s own.
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Many historians of the ancient world are wary of sounding (i)_____. Write so much as a sentence and the temptation is immediately to (ii)_____ it. Even in cases when the sources for a given event are (iii)_____, uncertainties and discrepancies crop up everywhere.
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In the 1630s, directors of the Dutch West India Company received reports of minor problems from their agents with _____, as the company was wealthy enough not to be overly concerned about small frustrations.
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The concept of increasing complexity of organisms has _____ history among evolutionary biologists, and yet many laypeople would unhesitatingly say that the pattern applies to the history of life on Earth.
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Although traditionally artists have rightly been seen as the most _____ audience for the work of their colleagues, today taste is also created by critics and curators and occasionally by collectors.
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Which of the following is closest to the percent increase in the number of temporary employees from 1993 to 1999?
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A bookcase has s shelves with $$n$$ books on each shelf, where $$n$$ is a multiple of both $$s$$ and $$s-1$$. If all of the books on the highest shelf were removed and redistributed equally among the other shelves, which of the following represents the number of books that would be on each of the other shelves?
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$$\frac{60!-59!}{58!}=$$
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$$x$$=2
$$y$$=3
$$z$$=5
Quantity A$$x^{-1}yz^{-2}$$ Quantity B$$(\frac{xz}{y})^{-2}$$
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On his trip to the airport, Grant drove a total of 9 miles. His average speed on the trip was x miles per hour, where 30 ≤ x ≤ 35. Which of the following could be the total number of minutes that Grant took to make the trip?
Indicate all such numbers of minutes.
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