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Because human emotions are behavioral complexes, they presumably took a very long time to develop. Therefore, a complete lack of any (i) _____________ human emotions in ancestral species is (ii) _____________.
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Meteorology is one of the few fields of applied science that demands prediction; since prediction involves considerable uncertainty and uncertainty is _____________ scientists, meteorology will continue to exist in a fraught intellectual space.
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The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers appeared _____________.
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Defying expectation, the electorate seems poised to (i) _____________ a number of political tenets so (ii) _____________ that they are often paraded as fact.
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The tools of science are so specialized that we accept them as a kind of _____________ machinery for producing knowledge: we know that they work, but cannot explain why.
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To say that John Adams was forthright was to be _____________; friends as well as enemies were more likely to characterize his stark honesty and direct manner as blunt and awkward.
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The painter Fu Baoshi lived and worked through a tumultuous period in Chinese history, _________ by exceptional talent and a steely dedication to his art.
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The 1901 steel negotiations featured Morgan in his most famously __________ mode: knocking heads together, barking out prices for properties, and forcing titans to truckle to his will.
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We wallow in bad news, tales of how things went wrong, but we have only the most _____________ discussions regarding how they might go right.
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Although the Endangered Species Act is intended to conserve ecosystems, it is only the ecosystems of listed endangered and threatened species that the statute (i)_____________. Moreover, even in this sense, the conservation of ecosystems is (ii)_____________ the conservation of listed species: the word "ecosystem" appears only once in the statute, in the purpose statement, and from there the statute is (iii) _____________ species.
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The vast majority of universities in the United States promote themselves as institutions of free speech and thought, construing censorship as _____________ their search for knowledge.
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The highlighted quotation from L. Schoep serves in part to
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According to the passage, reluctance to abandon the logarithmic-spiral model of shell formation arises from the fact that
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The author suggests which of the following about motivated reasoning?
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Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why those fish species benefit from having such lenses?
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In the argument given. the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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The author mentions "Anthia feeding her dogs " primarily in order to support
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According to the passage, scholars have not given sensationalism serious consideration because they believe sensationalism
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