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According to the passage, Alpers would say that the assumptions underlying the "paradigm” were
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Although one can adduce myriad of examples of ecosystem disruption by nonindigenous species, nevertheless most introduced species that survive in fact appear to have quite _____ effects on the ecosystem they have invaded.
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World demand for oil had been intensified, but it slackened because China's surge in oil consumption had (i)_____. Moreover, high oil price had themselves started to act as a short-term (ii)_____ the global economy, thus further dampening demand.
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In protoscientific (for example, in ancient Greece), claims about the physical world were often accepted as true if they were reasonable; experimental verification, if thought necessary at all, was _____.
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Although its director _____ that the movie uses a documentary approach in portraying the famous sit-down strike, in practice its characters are heavily fictionalized and fall into familiar Hollywood types.
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Historically, the depletion of soil's nitrogen has been one of the most _____ problems faced by farmers: an essential nutrient, nitrogen is quickly leached from soil, and farmers have struggled to find ways to replenish it.
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Joshua Gisemba Bagaka found that the pedagogical results of group projects and other engaged learning activities in Kenyan mathematics classroom were _____; such activities, then, may not be the best way of improving mathematics education.
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The laboratory maze has grown ever less _____ since it was first invented: instead of hoping to lose a rodent in a labyrinth, today's scientists design mazes to elicit a few simple, easily measured behaviors.
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Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for the argument given?
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The author of the passage mentions Crown and Wills primarily in order to
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The author of the passage mentions Johnson's 1762 pension award in order to
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According to the passage, which of the following is true of an Eurasia-Africa land bridge during ice ages?
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Enlightened thinkers in late-eighteenth-century Europe broadly endorsed the concept of progress, yet theories of progress were usually________ a strong streak of pessimism, a sense of the challenges inherent in the human condition.
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Knowing how (i)_____ she was at work, her colleagues were surprised at her (ii)_____
throughout the dinner.
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His _____ speaking style notwithstanding, William Perkins has long been seen as the moderate face of his political party.
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It's a sign of John Dramani Mahama's maturity as a writer that he is willing to consider his country's future so _____: his memoir is appealingly honest, given to clear-eyed assessments rather than exaggerated accounts of achievements.
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The journey to (i)_____, when it starts from a vantage as (ii)_____ as Dunsany's, is often as (iii)_____ as the path to glory. How did a writer of such talent and renown wind up nearly forgotten?
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In Schaller`s contradictory introduction to the book, she alternately applauds and _____
humankind`s role in animal conservation.
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