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History is about recognizing continuities and therefore the historian must (i)_____________ stories that rope together the disparate worlds of past and present. But it is also true that honest history arises from a sense of (ii)_____________. lt is the experience of discontinuity that alerts us to the(iii)_____________ of the past and sets us looking for narratives to capture that unfamiliar entity.
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For decades, debates about the potential benefits of seafloor mining in ocean deeps were _____________, because mining at depths greater than 1,000 meters was considered technologically impossible.
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Hedonic hunger, or the urge to eat for pleasure, applies even when we are full. When food is (i)_____________, hedonic hunger comes in handy, so we can stock up on calories for the hard times ahead. But in a world of(ii)_____________, the same impulse makes us gain weight.
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The literary critic' s first book, coming after a long period of reviewing poetry in magazines, is the author's chance to(i)_____________ positions previously (ii)_____________somewhat confusingly, and show how they(iii)_____________, if in fact they do.
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Land near Bangladesh's coastal rivers is _____________: temporary islands, or chars, form in the main rivers as sediments are deposited and then disappear during floods.
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In his self-portraits Rembrandt is notably _____________ the details of his own physiognomy, with the color of his eyes, the shape of his nose never seeming to be the same from one picture to the next.
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Until the l960s, predictions ofthe effect of winds on the ocean waves were_____________, and forecasts of wave heights during stoms were consequently unreliable.
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The fierce drought that is gripping the area—and imminent rationing and steep water price increases—is _____________the area's deep economic divide, as wealthy communities guzzle water while poorer commnities nearby conserve by necessity.
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The play is undeniably cerebral - its plot turns on the interpretation of quantum mechanics.but critics have found this_____________ exhilarating, and the play does not wear its ideas too heavily.
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The figure shows a normal distribution with mean m and standard deviation d, including approximate percents of the distribution corresponding to the six regions shown.
The discrete random variable V is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. If 10,200 of the values of V are between 500 and 600, what is the best estimate of the number of values of V that are less than 400?
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If the responses summarized in the table represent an 80 percent return from the total number of departments receiving the survey questionnaire, how many departments received the survey questionnaire?
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If a department uses exactly 2 of the types of software, how many different pairs are possible?
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What is the greatest possible number of responding departments that could be using both exploratory and symbolic manipulation software packages?
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Like the Homeric bards, early blues musicians added or removed song parts depending on whether those elements appealed to their (i)_____________. Since such improvisatory revision directly privileged audience reaction over plot coherence in governing song (ii)_____________, the sense of narrative in the lyrics of much early blues music can seem confusing.
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It is surprising that such a handsomely produced volume does not reflect more (i)_____________ proofreading: typographical errors are copious enough to be (ii)____________. Somewhat more substantially, the book would have been greatly enhanced by the inclusion of more maps or illustrations, though against that it must be conceded that were the work as (iii)_____________ illustrated as desired, it would have been prohibitively expensive.
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Nancy Weiss Malkiel's painstakingly detailed history of coeducation at elite universities is an invaluable _____________ the amnesia that has come to envelop even such a relatively recent-but critically neglected-development.
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