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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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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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Life on Europa in the form suggested in the passage would be dependent on
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Many of the towns that have voted to keep incinerators in the county's solid waste plan have done so not because they necessarily (i)_____ incinerators, but because they are (ii)_____ to narrow their waste-disposal options.
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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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It is a paradox of the Victorians that they were both _____ and, through their empire, cosmopolitan.
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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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A cure for the common cold has been so elusive that it has become a modern symbol of _____.
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When a new scientific model emerges, research studies (i)__________ that paradigm tend to dominate in the scientific literature: the process of selecting articles for publication is tilted towards positive results. But once the paradigm (ii)__________, the academic incentives shift in the opposite direction: research results are more considered worthy publication when they (iii)____________ what has become the established view.
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Because movie studios, under pressure to generate international sales, have favored big-budget pictures with fantasy plots, the representation of everyday domestic life has largely been _____ other media, such as television and literature.
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Communicating articulately is typically regarded as an aggressive, persuasive talent, but it can also be protective: it allows a certain _____ closeness, conveying proximity while actually maintaining distance.
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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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Individuals, governments, and companies show ample ability to _____ themselves by setting goals based on current conditions and then blindly following them even when those conditions change drastically.
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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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If $$n$$ and $$m$$ are positive integers and $$m$$ is a factor of $$2^{6}$$, what is the greatest possible number of integers that can be equal to both $$3n$$ and $$\frac{2^{6}}{m}$$?
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The passage is concerned primarily with
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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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