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The passage mentions documents relating to women printers' business activities primarily in order to
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The passage suggests which of the following about the studies mentioned in the highlighted sentence?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage suggests which of the following about bacteria?
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Which of the following can be inferred about the "recent research"?
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The author mentions "long-chain fatty acids and sterols" primarily in order to
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Because wildfires are becoming increasingly ____________, the computer modeling programs that used to help predict their progression based on information about past fires are becoming less useful to those engaged in fighting the blazes.
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Whether the film is ____________ adaptation of the legend is debatable: the author of the screenplay claims that it was based on the original tale, but admits taking some interpretive license with the story.
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The argument is most vulnerable to which of the following criticism?
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Which of the following regarding the Ngarrindjeni people can be inferred from the passage?
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It can be inferred from the passage that Rhonds Cravea would agree with which of the following statements regarding oral history?
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence in the context of the passage as a whole?
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Concerned about the growing tendency of universities to sometimes reward celebrity more generously than specialized expertise, many academics have deplored the search for ____________ to which that practice leads.
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The committee (i)____________ their praise for the proposal with several (ii)____________ remarks pointing out flaws in the document; in fact, one committee member referred to a trivial typographical error as "unpardonable."
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Governments tend to be (i)____________ the Internet. Most are truly (ii)____________ its phenomenal growth and the opportunities it offers to both business and education. They also sense that any country attempting to hold it back risks looking foolish and technophobic. (iii)____________, they find the Internet's libertarian culture and contempt for national borders subversive and frankly terrifying.
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When the relationship between theories and findings was first elaborated, philosophers of science thought of experimental findings as the fixed part of science, and they pondered how theories were built upon the foundations of data that experiments provided. But sociologists have since shown that the relationship between theory and data is (i)____________. Empirical data may be as (ii)____________ as theories: a theory with strong prior confirmation may reduce the (iii)____________ of a conflicting new finding, just as an unexpected finding can bring a theory into question.
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