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For years the prime minister was made to sound articulate and convincing through the efforts of his talented speech writers. Yet there was a downside to the speech writers` (i)_____: as the prime minister`s government began to (ii)_____, his rhetorical (iii)_____ stood in stark contrast to his political inadequacies.
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One reason for the (i)_____ of the Victorian novel is our recognition that Victorian society, despite its differences from the contemporary world, confronted its novelists with problems that (ii)_____ our own: how to reconcile democracy with traditional humanistic culture and how to create a humane existence in the welter of urban life. In short, foreshadowings of our present-day (iii)_____ abound in the Victorian novel.
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According to the passage, during the seventeenth century the French increasingly developed a taste for
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In the context in which it appears, "sensibilities" most nearly means
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The temperature of the fires that produced the "lens-shaped patches" is mentioned primarily in order to
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The fact that "many of H. erectus` tools were made of basalt or quartz" is relevant to the argument of the passage for which of the following reasons?
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Zadie Smith`s White Teeth is ecstatically __________: Smith seems to have omitted no incident, no character, no metaphor, no joke that struck her fancy.
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The growing competition among the science journals for the most-important research may contribute to mistakes and fabrications, even in the most __________ of the bunch.
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Even though the survey course was designated as interdisciplinary, it involved no real __________ of subject matter.
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Experimentation in the arts often generates befuddlement, and even __________ of innovative art generally have voiced perplexity regarding this new, experimental artwork.
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument given?
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For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
The passage mentions which of the following as an obstacle to using animal bones to reconstruct past climate changes?
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The passage mentions "red deer" as an instance of an animal that
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The passage mentions that "Earth`s atmosphere contains oxygen" primarily in order to
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