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Gravity is the _____________ of the four fundamental forces existing in nature, the others being the electromagnetic force, and the strong and weak nuclear forces: yet over laree distances it is gravity that dominates.
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His basic argument regarding individuals is that being (i)____________ a problem can lead to a creative (ii) ____________ . When we are relaxed, by contrast, we are more likely to direct our attention inward and thus detect the connections that lead to fruitful insights and discoveries.
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Psychologists have found that forgetting is not (i)_____________ to learning but (ii)_____________ to it,a principle that is
(iii)_____________ machine learning. If a machine learns a task,then forgets it, then learns another task and forgets it, and so on, it can be coached to grasp the common features of those tasks, and it will pick up new variants faster. It won't have learned anything specific, but it will have learned how to learn.
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It can be inferred from the passage that Wegener and Holmes
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In attempting to explain why ancient Chinese farmers who primarily grew millet started to grow wheal, researchers note that wheal and millet have ___________sowing seasons: wheat can be sowed after millet has been harvested.
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The author argues that while Emily Dickinson was profoundly rooted in a particular place and culture, her poetry was anything but _______ .
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While most exoplanets detected by telescope missions such as Kepler share common features, planets with such features are not necessarily more ____________ than other types of planets; they are simply easier to find.
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Which of the following, if true, most logically completes the argument?
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By forcing our surrender to the authority of the clock, systematic timekeeping has imposed a form of ______________ on society.
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Counterintuitively, sea levels that are falling absolutely can result in the _______________ of coastal landscapes in cases where the landmass is falling faster than the sea.
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There is a striking difference between evolution and development. The path an embryo takes through developmental space forms a repeating loop, with embryos traversing basically the same regions of space every generation. This is in contrast to evolution, where the paths taken by species through genetic space are more (i)______________ and do not have a (ii)______________ character.
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Perhaps most (i)______________ to early-twentieth-century critics of outdoor advertising was that their legislative successes did little to diminish the exponential growth of the industry. Indeed, their reform legislation to some extent (ii)______________ industry expansion, as each new legislative action affirmed bill posters' right to occupy all but specifically proscribed spaces.
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Until recently one could be forgiven for thinking that early printing in England was a predominantly (i)______________ enterprise. This impression has now been (ii)______________ by a variety of evidence that demonstrates that several monasteries became directly involved in the production and publication of printed books in the early sixteenth century.
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About 8.000 years ago, in the early Holocene, because temperatures were more (i) ______________ than today, the Tibetan Plateau seems to have been largely (ii)______________ ice. However, the Guliya ice cap in the western Kunlun Mountains of the Plateau likely (iii)______________ during the Holocene warm-up because the Westerlies-the same winds that keep Siberia, Russia, an icebox-blow through the Kunlun Mountains.
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