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Archaeology, paleontology, and geology depend on the ____________ of data collection to construct scientific knowledge:if there are no fossils preserved, or if they remain undiscovered and uninterpreted,there is nothing to study.
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Sea turtles' grazing on sea grass is less ____________ near Bermuda than elsewhere: Bermuda protects sea turtles as an endangered species but does not protect their predators, tiger sharks.
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A tree called melaleuca, introduced from Australia into the Florida Everglades in the late 1800s, now threatens certain indigenous Floridian trees with extinction. Since an Australian insect species controls melaleuca's population in Australia, introducing that insect species into Florida will help preserve the indigenous Floridian trees by controlling the population of melaleuca in Florida.
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Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the argument?
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It can be inferred from the passage that the process of turning grapes into wine
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Based on the information in the passage, which of the following is most likely to produce lighter-colored wine?
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It can be inferred from the passage that, compared to the versions in modern editions, some Old English poems as they come to us in surviving manuscripts
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The author of the passage would most likely agree that apparent violations of poetic conventions in Old English poetry
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Influenza is ____________ virus: it is full of surprises and newness, prone to mutation and reassortment.
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In 1998, observations of a (i)____________ in the growth of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, suggested that many of the scenarios for global warming provided in a 1995 assessment may have been overly (ii)____________. Celebration was, however, premature: subsequent research has established that the observed phenomena were likely caused by (iii)____________ declines in industrial and natural emissions.
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Japan's first university was more (i)_______________ than its Chinese counterparts in the same era, since the Chinese Tang system was highly (ii)_____________. However, this changed over time. As Japanese court offices became increasingly hereditary, the examination system, by which students from a wide range of social classes were admitted into the universities, (iii)____________.
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Life on Europa in the form suggested in the passage would be dependent on
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The highlighted sentence serves to introduce
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It can be inferred from the passage that toward the end of the Middle Ming period
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It can be inferred from the passage that Governor Zhu Wan most likely
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The passage suggests that the large-scale export of Chinese porcelain after 1488
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Ancient coins displayed in museums are almost by definition ____________, on display precisely because they are the most beautiful, the most elaborate, and the best-preserved samples.
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Although traditionally artists have rightly been seen as the most ____________ audience for the work of their colleagues, today taste is also created by critics and curators and occasionally by collectors.
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Debates over technologies often ____________ their development: we can reflect on many of the social and ethical issues that the possibility of geoengineering the climate raises right as these technologies are coming into existence.
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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