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The singer did not perform at full volume during the opera's opening act, but that may have been because she was________ her voice for the two difficult and lengthy subsequent acts.
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Start with a basic point: reading is a fundamentally (i)________ act. Anyone who has ever taught a child to read will remember the difficulty involved in distinguishing, for instance, between lowercase b, d, and p. After all, if you move them around or flip them over, they (ii)________. And we have to be taught also to (iii)________ not just a few of these odd marks but the thousands that go into telling even the simplest children's story.
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Throughout human history, intelligence and consciousness have been________ concepts: those possessing much of the former are assumed, in some ill-defined way, to be more conscious than those less astute.
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While there is no evidence that Bigfoot is real, several well-known species were once thought to be________; the okapi, for instance, was known as the “African unicorn" until explorers obtained proof of its existence.
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Guy takes a characteristically________ approach in his biographical narrative of Queen Elizabeth I, taking nothing at face value and believing that no accepted view is beyond scrutiny.
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Hubbert's 1956 prediction that peak oil output in the United States would occur in or around 1970 was met with little (i)________ at the time, but daily output did peak in 1970,and since then Hubbert's calculations have been viewed as extraordinarily (ii)________.
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Not only did observers report fraud at some polling stations, but the official vote count itself was_________.
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Some historians claim that geography and climate shaped the course of history, an assertion that implies a fairly________ role for individuals as agents of historical change.
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The "researchers" mentioned in the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about conditions on the surface of the Moon?
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According to the passage, neutron data collected by Lunar Prospector could be explained by which of the following?
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The passage implies that the areas of permanent shadow detected by the Clementine spacecraft
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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The highlighted sentence serves primarily to
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The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following assertions about the "experiments"?
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According to the passage, examination of trilobite fossils helped scientists determine the
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The passage suggests which of the following about the formation of the Bright Angel Shale?
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