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Based on information in the passage, which of the following best describes the "subsequent collisions" ?
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The highlighted sentence serves primarily to
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The statement in the highlighted sentence suggests which of the following about the philosophers mentioned in the passage?
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The passage suggests which of the following about "those who prize her critical work" ?
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Whatever the level of the museum's past (i) ____________ American art, it pales besides its current (ii) ____________. Since opening its renovated and expanded building, the museum has relegated American paintings to hard-to-find corners of the museum. It is as if American art is (iii) ____________the overwhelmingly European narrative that dominates the permanent collection galleries.
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The plays of Alice Childress (1916-1994) often present Black women in confrontations that rearrange what qualifies as ____________ behavior: Childress's heroines, for example, often question the social protocols limiting the content of public conversations.
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The ____________ markings on some prehistoric bone and antler fragments could be accidents or the result of doodling, but may also represent a form of communication such as tally marks or even early calendars.
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The (i)____________ museums woridwide makes for (ii) ____________: by some estimates, 75 percent of species that are "discovered" each year during field expeditions are already part of a museum collection somewhere.
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Some chemists argue that although molecular motors are (i) ____________, they are (ii) ____________ by themselves; nevertheless, the chemical principles behind them might be (iii) ____________: using the same light-activated mechanism that drives certain molecular motors, researchers have developed around 100 drug-like compounds that can be switched on or off in response to light.
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The philosopher proposod that prehistoric humans were by nature autonomous and combative, establishing community life only when the cost of strife became ____________.
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The hypothesis that the moon formed from a planetary impact could account for the ____________ of water and other volatiles on the Moon since such an impact would have caused volatiles to escape into space.
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Yang Hong's studies of ancient Chinese tombs transcribe the tombs' epitaphs and inscriptions, noting whether these texts corroborate available information about the deceased's life or ancestry or ____________ it by presenting biographical material not found elsewhere.
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Woody plant responses to herbivory were always thought to be ____________; however, some scientists have reported localized responses to herbivory in certain woody plants.
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Recent work suggests that the interest among the rural population in the anticolonial political activism of the 1950s has to a large extent been (i)____________: the small percentage of rural residents who engaged in documented acts of overt political activism during that period (ii)____________ a much larger number who were strongly sympathetic but more cautiously engaged.
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Scrupulous accounting by businesses tends to be swept aside during periods when frenzied investing and speculation seem to promise huge profits, demonstrating once again that ____________, in the presence of lucre, may erode honesty.
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Magazines use superlatives to generate excitement and make stories seem worth reading, and not even the most punctilious fact-checkers at the most principled magazines can fight off all the ____________ claims.
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We might be much closer to building the next generation of observatories if competing groups of astronomers had not ____________ repeated chances to collaborate; instead, three separate projects with common goals are fighting one another for funding.
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Several environmental organizations have found themselves in the ____________ position of endorsing a legislature that they have long criticized as being too quick to approve development projects.
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The scientific study of laughter faces a frustrating paradox: ideal experiments take place in rigidly controlled environments with all but the most salient variables eliminated, but such sterile settings are often ____________ laughter.
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