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In the Hawaiian Islands, where the volcanic material is initially too ____________ to support running surface water, rainwater simply percolates down through the substratum.
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In wastewater tested before and after treatment at some treatment plants, certain medications were found in higher concentrations after treatment than before, suggesting that microbes used to clean wastewater may also be ____________ some medications that had broken down earlier.
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Underlying the new laws against business corruption is the growing recognition that bribery and extortion have demonstrably (i)____________ consequences. Gone is the day when some pundits seriously argued that corruption should be(ii)_____________ as an inevitable by-product of intractable economic forces.
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By sucking people into towns and draining the countryside of communities and workers, the passenger train (i)____________ its reason for being: moving people between country districts and urban centers. The major (ii)____________ urbanization in the United States, the railway fell victim to it. Once the overwhelming majority of nonelective journeys were either very long or very short, it became (iii)____________ for people to undertake them in planes or cars.
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The convergence of two disparate sciences allows the imagining of new questions that cannot be addressed by knowledge and techniques ____________ either field.
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The problem of not understanding the solar wind, a high-speed stream of particles permeating space around Earth, is not merely ____________: explosive solar energy traveling through it threatens astronauts and satellites orbiting Earth.
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One of the problems of light verse is that it thrives on ____________ and thus has a short shelf life.
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According to Peter Kwapong, rural Ghanaian farmers, despite regarding stingless bees as useful animals, by and large have not ____________ the bees as economic resources.
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A box contains 6 cards, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, respectively. If one of the 6 cards is to be selected at random, what is the probability that the number on the card selected will be greater than 3 or even or both?
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The passage suggests which of the following about the patch choices made by human foragers?
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According to the passage, the “explanation” depends on which of the following being true?
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