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Part of what currently makes it so (i)_____ to arrive at a scientific understanding of the living world is that while technological advances have produced a cascade of data—from detailed genome sequence to the sophisticated satellite imagery that documents the planet's ecosystems—our ability to (ii)_____ these data still lags far behind their (iii)_____.
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In the wild, no other mammal _____ individuals from another species: badgers do not tend hares, deer do not nurture baby squirrels, lions do not care for giraffes.
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Recent research runs counter to the long-cherished notion that a small drop in body temperature during and after surgery is either _____ or actually protects the patient by slowing metabolism and reducing the body's demand for blood and oxygen.
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In the northeastern United States, beaver populations had been critically reduced or even _____ in large areas at the end of nineteenth century; as a result, several states instituted prohibitions on beaver trapping.
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Laughter, like speech, is primarily a human faculty, although both functions may also exist in a more _____ form in lesser primates.
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Contrary to its reputation for intellectual _____, the 1950s was a decade exceptionally rich in works of trenchant and far-reaching social criticism.
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The philosopher was a strong advocate of _____: he taught that happiness comes from forgoing one`s desires.
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In light of Elizabeth`s habitually (i)_____ nature, her friend were quite surprised by her (ii)_____ at the convention.
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After Betty found a qualified assistant to help her, the tasks that once seemed so (i)_____ became quite (ii)_____.
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Since the 1920s, historical fiction writers in China have emancipated the genre from the traditional notion that (i)_____ was the ultimate goal of history writing. Yet the traditional commitment to (ii)_____ was not simply (iii)_____: this new genre was expected to capture the essence of historical truth even as it allowed space for the writer`s imagination.
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The journey to (i)_____, when it starts from a vantage as (ii)_____ as Dunsany's, is often as (iii)_____ as the path to glory. How did a writer of such talent and renown wind up nearly forgotten?
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It is normal for artists who achieve great acclaim during their lifetimes to be considered _____ shortly after their deaths, only to have their reputations restored by subsequent generations.
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Human perception is not a direct consequence of reality but rather requires imagination, because the data that people encounter in their lives are never complete and always _____.
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Susanne Prediger argues that although rational decimals and fractions are mathematically equivalent, students generally deal with them in _____ ways, hence they are not cognitively equivalent.
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Although Lemettais was _____ computer engineering, he lacked the spirit or enthusiasm to pursue it as a lifelong occupation.
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The architecture of the Shanghai Bund was for decades presented as an archetypal symbol of abhorrent Western influence, which may be one of the reasons that these grand buildings were _____ for so many years.
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The wonder of Amy Chapman was her _____, her tenacious devotion to certain causes.
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In her new biography, Gonzalez doesn`t (i)_____ the aspects of her subject that have drawn criticism but instead creates them with considerable (ii)_____: hardly a fact or assertion goes by her without being sourced in the endnotes.
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The governor is known for her unwillingness to (i)_____ policy decisions in the face of opponents: typically, if she announces a specific policy and is confronted with objections from interest groups, she (ii)_____ the policy.
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At least one otter species, the sea otter, has a large, often dominating, effect on the structure of its own habitat. There is no evidence that other species have ever exercised such (i)_____ effects. That lack of evidence could merely be because the other species have been studied less thoroughly. However, the size and density of the historic sea otter populations in many Pacific coastal regions (ii)_____ those of other otter species elsewhere, so perhaps the sea otter is indeed (iii)_____ in its effects on habitat.
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