The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage points out which of the following in order to explain the appeal of the notion that some attine ants cultivate and control fungus?
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According to the passage, Alpers would say that the assumptions underlying the "paradigm” were
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Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information?
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Each of the country's 26 sates and most of its more than 2,000 municipalities have their own police forces, _____ communication and making it difficult to establish a coordinated law-enforcement strategy.
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In Ramachandran's opinion, it is perfectly acceptable to propose bold speculations about the brain, even if these speculations seem _____; as Ramachandran frequently remarks, science thrives on risky conjecture.
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Because people expect theater directors to be authoritarians, many were surprised that Clark was so _____.
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After rising continuously over the summer, commodity prices fell, leaving analyst wondering whether the downward trend is a turning point or merely a _____ before demand picks up in the winter months.
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In a field of egotists, Bloomfield is _____, often praising her competitors and punctuating her correspondence with self-deprecating remarks.
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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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At first, most of the famous fairy tales seem so implausible and so irrelevant to contemporary life that their _____ is hard to understand.
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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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