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The passage suggests that the large-scale export of Chinese porcelain after 1488
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Ancient coins displayed in museums are almost by definition ____________, on display precisely because they are the most beautiful, the most elaborate, and the best-preserved samples.
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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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Debates over technologies often ____________ their development: we can reflect on many of the social and ethical issues that the possibility of geoengineering the climate raises right as these technologies are coming into existence.
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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According to the passage, scholars have not given sensationalism serious consideration because they believe sensationalism
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In the context in which it appears, "charged" most nearly means
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In 1961, Julia Child published Mastering the Art of French Cooking, frequently described as revolutionary. According to legend, Child inspired Americans to exchange their bland cooking for French cuisine's rich flavors.Yet Child's book was hardly singular among cookbooks. One publishing catalog lists almost as many books about French cooking in the decade before Child's book as in the decade after. While Child's book influenced a particular American cohort, its effect on the American publishing industry was minimal, a fact at odds with popular assumptions both about publishers and about Child's importance. We might expect Child's success to foster many imitators. Instead American cookbooks pursued themes popular before Child's book was published, including a growing interest in the American cooking styles allegedly vanquished by Child.
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The author mentions the "cohort" primarily to
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It can be inferred from the passage that the “growing interest"
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When published Native American autobiographies derive from a Native subject's oral narration transcribed and edited by a non-Native collaborator, some consider the term "autobiography"____________ since the final work may largely reflect the editor's choices.
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