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Klein has dedicated her career to rooting out and exposing scientific fraud. She is indisputably a partisan, editorializing sharply against poor oversight and vague retraction notices, yet her focus on evidence over accusations (i)____________ earlier watchdogs who sometimes seemed ((ii)______________ personal animus.
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Direct imaging cannot yet be done for a terrestrial exoplanet because of the daunting optics challenges. For one thing, the glow of a terrestrial exoplanet could be much more (i)____________ than that of its host star. If this is the case, scientists would have to (ii)____________ much of the host star's light to (iii)____________ the exoplanet.
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Why is the idea that self-deception contributes to happiness so (i)____________? The (ii)____________ of self-deception leads people to assume that it must have some function, that it is, in fact, adaptive in the sense that it helps us survive and thrive. But one could (iii)____________ by arguing that the capacity for self-deception is actually only a by-product of other features of the human mind that are beneficial for reasons other than their being implicated in producing self-deception.
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There is a clear trend away from automobile ownership and solo driving among young people. One view holds that these young people will (i)____________ as they age, but Willson argues that the trend is (ii)____________ one. As a result, car-free lifestyles will become more (iii)____________.
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Critics have interpreted African American painter Charles White's (i)____________ abstract art as evidence of his indifference to aesthetic innovation; yet White's (ii)____________ was not directed at abstract artists' (iii)____________ but rather at what White saw as their disengagement from pressing social realities.
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The passage suggests which of the following about "surface fractures"?
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Based on information in the passage, evidence of which of the following would best support the hypothesis that the observed plume emissions on Enceladus are powered by tides?
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According to the passage, mainstream women's fashions in the late nineteenth century
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The passage suggests that the "dress code" mentioned was primarily intended to
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It can be inferred from the passage that the "fashionable feminine styles" and the alternative style" mentioned have which of the following in common?
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Myth and orality are ___________ in Africa: the former is ubiquitous in the African oral literary tradition, while the latter is almost always based on the former.
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Ziegler has long been seen as a model of ____________, but Gunther, in her biography of Ziegler, comes to a very different conclusion: that Ziegler caused far more harm than good to the people she purported to serve.
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Scientists have assumed that certain seabirds eat plastic debris because it looks to them like their natural prey, but a new study suggests that what ____________ them is an odor the birds associate with food.
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Julius Caesar made a display of ____________cruel retribution against fellow Romans, but only if these Romans gave up their opposition to him.
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The answer to which of the following questions would most help in evaluating the argument?
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The passage suggests which of the following about "stone art"?
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