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The passage is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Because chemistry's position as one of the natural sciences has long seemed _____, historians have generally treated the foundation of chemical professorship as an inevitable component of the progression of universities.
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What they see in Tanaka is the one candidate capable of (i)_____ leadership, in direct contrast to Williamson , whose term in office has been marred by (ii)_____.
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Computers make it spectacularly easy to search for particular pieces of information in
downloaded texts. And doing research in this strategic, targeted manner can
feel (i)_____. Instead of (ii)_____ the organizing logic of the book you are reading, you can approach the book with your own questions and (iii)_____. You, not the author, are the master.
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For all the _____ the new CEO has received from the press recently, her staff have a decidedly less rosy view of her.
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There is frequently a protracted time interval between the introduction of an innovative musical composition and its public acceptance; the concert-going public often spurns the _____ in favor of the familiar for a prolonged period.
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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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While some commentators suggest that abstraction and complexity in scientific research are signs that a given direction is misguided, Lisa Randall, a professor of physics at Harvard, counters that these qualities instead reflect the success of human ingenuity in (i)_____ the increasingly (ii)_____ challenges that nature presents. They can, however, make it more (iii)_____ to communicate scientific developments, even to colleague.
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The science community's perennial lament over inadequate budgets has come to seem increasing _____, because government support for science and engineering has never been greater.
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Blake's reputation for weakness is _____: almost all who have worked with him say he is a disciplined, intellectually formidable, and very tough politician.
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The author of the passage mentions Crown and Wills primarily in order to
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The author mentions Medea primarily in order to
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The author of the passage implies which of the following about the political importance of the type of urban water management system described in the passage?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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