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In the xy-plane, the points (-2, 1) and (2, 3) lie on line l. Which of the following points does NOT lie on line l?
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While the _____________ of reliable sources in later narratives make many details of the early history of China's Zhou dynasty unverifiable, the Zhou rulers' successful rise to power is certain.
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Those who admired Callas felt that she was one of the greatest opera singers of all time, while others believed that her vocal inadequacies _____________ such a claim.
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Refusing to speak plainly, the candidate tested her audience's patience with her _____________ speech.
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Their remote jungle habitat and their extreme shyness have (i)_____________ any thorough investigation of orangutans except in the (ii)_____________ conditions of captivity.
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Far-reaching explanations of many anomalous phenomena observed during solar eclipses have been (i)_____________ many scientists, who maintain that the correct explanations are (ii)_____________, having to do with fluctuations in temperature, atmospheric pressure, or other environmental parameters, rather than some (iii)_____________ eclipse-related factor.
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Gutiérrez is the only one who seems to be (i)_____________ the controversy sparked by his article: his appetite for scientific (ii)_____________ seems, if anything, to be increasing with age.
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Kennedy's novels have a baffling way of engaging us as readers and then (i)_____________ our involvement. It is not that she gives us wooden characters or poor writing or foolish plots. Rather, her books seem so adroitly written and carefully conceived, they strike us as so (ii)_____________ as we read them, that it comes as a surprise to reach the end and find them ultimately so (iii)_____________.
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The mountain pine beetle is not _____________ like other major pests ravaging much of the American landscape: it is native to the western pine forests.
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Few consumers think of food as having a production history. Rather, our food seems (i)_____________ those who grow, process, and serve it. Our food supply system encourages us to ignore connections between what we eat and its past, and, until recently, such (ii) _____________ on our part scarcely impacted consumer health.
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The apparent simplicity of a savanna or a prairie landscape is illusory, but the illusion takes real effort to _____________ because much of what actually occurs in these places takes place underground.
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The two scientists' achievements are _____________ only in a narrowly conceived history of science: although both erred in scientific judgment, both also defended science in its infancy and established it as an intelligible and useful activity.
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Although most economists believe European growth will pick up this year, the numbers do not point that way _____________; in Germany, for instance, manufacturing orders are rising but industrial production is slowing.
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The pronghorn antelope in northern Mexico may be viewed as (i)_____________ species, as most of the North American prairie, its chief historical habitat, has (ii)_____________.
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It is _____________ among psychotherapists that an intimate human relationship is good for a person: none other than Freud himself once famously said that health requires success in love as well as in work. Martin, however, is not quite as (ii)_____________ : it seems that for some people, according to Martin, love and intimacy might not just be (iii)_____________, but downright toxic.
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Films that hew to genre conventions are not necessarily (i) _____________: some of the best movies ever made are (ii) _____________ westerns, detective stories, melodramas, and marriage comedies, and (iii) _____________ conventions is not in itself a virtue. But nonetheless it can be thrilling to see something that feels new, risky, unusual, or even confounding.
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According to one prominent critic, scientists enamored of the metaphor of the frontier tend to be _____________: they believe their single-authored work has more cultural value than collaborative research.
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We could think of virtuosity as the exhibition of something difficult done with apparent ease. Yet, if this is so, the (i) _____________ of virtuosity is necessarily somewhat (ii) _____________, for spectators must recognize that the appearance of ease is (iii) _____________.
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Subsistence activities are often (i) _____________ by people in industrialized societies who see them as (ii) _____________. In point of fact, however, these activities are not mere holdovers from the past; rather, they are essential elements of cultural identity in some societies today, such as those of arctic aboriginal people.
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In the (i) _____________ world of the pioneering Walker Art Center, artful provocation is (ii) _____________ blockbuster entertainment, the (iii) _____________ is privileged over the tried-and-true, and willful insouciance is cultivated about the market forces that rein in the creativity of most big museum establishments.
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