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The author of the passage mentions Mach most likely in order to
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Although in Europe after the First World War meteorology held the same rank as astronomy, in the United States top academic institutions did not treat it as a field __________ any physical science.
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In one commentator`s view, modern free traders are complete __________ because they show no interest in practicality, nuance, or flexibility on the issue of free trade.
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Which of the following, if true of doctors who make house calls, most seriously weakens the argument?
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The main thrust of her argument was that wage differences, far from being __________, do in fact reflect education, skills, experience, and other factors that make employees more productive.
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The government, having consistently failed in its foreign policy to apply the principle of the self-determination of peoples, has been __________ by those critics who support the universal application of that principle.
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Folk music, having remained (i)_____ by reinforcing ethnic identities and advocating social change, has nevertheless (ii)_____ the rural areas where it originally developed.
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Photovoltaic cells, which convert light directly to electricity, are safe, have no moving parts, operate at ambient temperature, and last for decades. It would therefore seem that they are one of the more (i)_____ ways to harness the Sun`s energy. However, there is an obvious (ii)_____ widespread application, and that is (iii)_____: electricity generated from photovoltaic cells is getting cheaper, but it still costs more than the going rate in most places.
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It is highly significant that compared with fellow Renaissance artists Michelangelo and Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci was (i)_____ the ancient world, which many in the Renaissance viewed as a model of heroic behavior in art. To be sure, Leonardo was not (ii)_____ antiquity: a recently discovered drawing for a statue of Hercules sheds light on Leonardo`s plan for a major work concerning that hero of ancient Greek mythology. But there was something in the Renaissance reverence for antiquity as a fixed value, as an ideal outside time, that (iii)_____ Leonardo`s fascination with the immediate, the mutable, and the elusive.
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According to the passage, payments to wage laborers in the early United States were
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The passage suggests which of the following about records of payments for outwork?
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"The continual input of bat-dispersed seed" is mentioned in the passage as part of an explanation for
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The passage implies which of the following about the B. alicastrum trees observed at Tikal?
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The passage implies which of the following about the B. alicastrum trees observed in Veracruz?
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Many claim that the evidence for Americans` growing social isolation is __________: families dine together a third less often than they did even in 1980 and participation in community groups and volunteer organizations has declined.
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The excellent agreement between theory and experiment convinced many of the original opponents of atomistic theories; thenceforth they accepted the __________ of the theories.
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