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The main historical question discussed in the passage is the reason for the gap between
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It can be inferred from the passage that the author considers which of the following to be a salient characteristic of modern legal systems?
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Calculus has proved adequate for modeling most objects in nature, but there remain others-snowflakes, coastlines, and clouds, for instance-whose irregular or discontinuous shapes __________ a different approach.
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The impersonality of so much of Sontag`s writings naturally leaves us wondering whether a different kind of writer will be revealed in her journals and notebooks, whether we will find there writing that is more (i)_____ and less (ii)_____.
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Traditional classroom instruction is (i)_____ for helping students construct a correct mental model of the lunar phases. Even in-class instruction augmented with a 3-D instead of a 2-D visual model has (ii)_____ student learning. There is a clear need for new and better approaches to the teaching of lunar phases.
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It seems that wolves will leaven their otherwise strongly hierarchical society with occasional displays of (i)_____, and if a pack leader proves to be too (ii)_____, subordinate wolves will go so far as to overthrow the top cur.
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The parents of pianist Jonathan Biss were both musical performers and teachers at a high level. Sometimes a young musician`s performance anxiety stems from a pressured childhood, in which (i)_____ parents, eager to see their child succeed onstage, end up (ii)_____ that child the pleasures and healthy adjustments of a normal youth. But Biss describes his as (iii)_____ musical upbringing.
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Proponents of the "alternative explanation" would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
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Which of the following statements best describes the overall organization of the passage?
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Because the author sometimes loses track of her line of argument, her work includes a number of __________.
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One of the strangest aspects of the trend is that it is so __________: the data show that the trend does not slow or stop and restart but just keeps increasing steadily.
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In the Southwestern United States, periodic droughts constrict fish into refuge areas when waters dry up, but historically there was greater connectivity of stream systems, which __________ recolonization of desiccated reaches when precipitation returned.
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Because of the newspaper`s policy of __________ joint bylines, lots of reporters were forced to do anonymous work on stories credited to other people.
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Which of the following most logically completes the argument?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Which of the following statements, if true, would most challenge an explanation for the "finding" advanced in the passage?
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