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Which of the following best describes the main idea of the passage?
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The passage mentions the "scandalous memoirs" that were written prior to the Romantic period primarily in order to
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Although trains may use energy more (i)_____ than do automobiles, the latter move only when they contain at least one occupant, whereas railway carriages spend a considerable amount of time running up and down the tracks (ii)_____, or nearly so.
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She was never (i)_____; she was nothing if not discreet, so she (ii)_____ for the present to declare her passion.
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Unlike some mammals-cows and sheep, for instance-that are notably _____, lions have a wide range of facial expressions.
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It would be naive to treat remarks made in diaries or personal letters as giving especially candid access to historical truth or even as being expressions of the writer`s true state of mind, since the (i)_____ for exaggeration and deception in those forms is virtually nonexistent. Diaries and letters are rarely sites for (ii)_____.
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There are two opposing theories about mountain formation and climate over the past 40 million years: either the surge of mountain building (i)_____ the global cooling or vice versa. The first of these two theories asserts that widespread mountain building cooled the earth as a result of the (ii)_____ mountains and climate. For example, mountain glaciers tend to be (iii)_____: once established, they increase the reflectivity of the surface, thus lowering temperatures and allowing more ice to form.
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Even if the story now seems a surprisingly innocuous overture to the author`s later, more fully developed narrations, it _____ some of the key traits of those bleaker tales.
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Partly because of Lee`s skill at synthesizing (i)_____ trends drawn from many fields of study, her theories appeared to present, with uncanny aptness, ideas already (ii)_____ in the minds of her contemporaries.
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Even though women in the US would not gain the rights to vote until 1920, throughout the nineteenth century many feminist goals were gradually _____, especially the rights of married women to control their own property.
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The reclusive clergyman may have lived and died in melancholy, but this doesn`t seem to have (i)_____ his genius in any way. On the contrary, we find ourselves wondering whether his genius wasn`t (ii)_____ in some mysterious way by his mood.
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The author of the passage mentions "tiny bones from fish" primarily in order to
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If the product of 7 consecutive integers is equal to the median of the integers, what is the least of the 7 integers?
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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