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Which of the following, if true of the cave, most weakens the argument?
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The passage implies that oral historians who advocate cautious editing of interview transcripts believe that
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In the context in which it appears, "conveyance" most nearly means
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Based on information in the passage, it can be inferred that a radar image of Titan is most likely to be able to show
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence in the contest of the passage as a whole?
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Action cinema has a reputation for giving spectators all action and no plot, and that reputation for narrative ____________ seems to have gained further traction with the increasingly ubiquitous use of digital effects.
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According to Pasquale, because technocratic corporate managers often seek to cloak contestable value judgments in the garb of science, these managers have (i)____________ mathematical models that reframe (ii)____________ conclusions (such as the worth of a worker, service, article, or product) as the inevitable dictate of salient, measurable data.
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The geographer held a (i)____________ view of the succession of theoretical trends (environmental determinism, spatial determinism, and various types of critical theory) in her field, maintaining that theory can (ii)____________ what is transpiring in a complex environment by focusing excessively on the favored schemes and variables of the moment.
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It seems clear that the (i)____________ nature of the candidate's comments is calculated. As a long-standing target of critics who claim he is too radical, he understands that he needs to be as (ii)____________ as possible if he is to overcome his own reputation as an overly (iii)____________ leader.
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The label "melodrama" tends to have (i)____________ implications when used to describe a film with historical subject matter. Melodrama is widely perceived as antithetical to cinematic realism and thus, from a perspective that seeks (ii)____________ rendering of the historical past, incapable of delivering the necessary (iii)____________.
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Although boredom is ____________, recent research indicates that excessive amounts of it can be harmful to health.
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Jamie offered to loan her classmate a pencil, on the condition that in three days he repay her with two boxes of brand-new pencils: who would have believed that such ____________ would exist among the young?
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The development of expertise in artistic and other fields may depend partly on ____________: data suggest that a person's level of achievement correlates strongly with the hours of practice he or she puts in.
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Dialogue exchanges indicating deep-seated rivalries among the characters abound in the novel, but they are almost always associated with_______events—everyday commercial transactions, for instance, or the preparation of an evening meal.
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Contrary to what might be expected, having numerous relationships is not necessarily a________loneliness since loneliness is determined by the way people experience relationships subjectively.
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Scientists have (i) ________ evidence to suggest a cause for the failure of the horse to become the predominant herbivore in central Alberta following glacial recession. A loss of optimal food resources has been cited as a possible cause of the decline of horse populations elsewhere, but the Albertan vegetation data for the period are (ii)________.
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The reclusive clergyman may have lived and died in melancholy, but this doesn't seem to have (i)_______his genius in any way. On the contrary, we find ourselves wondering whether his genius wasn't(ii)_______in some mysterious way by his mood.
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The explanation of tornado formation according to which tornadoes form during a twisting clash of air masses is clearly(i)________: such clashes occur very frequently both in the United States and in countries where tornadoes are(ii) ________.
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Although Sapir and Whorf's notion that different languages may impart different cognitive skills met with (i)_______early on, they had little evidence to support their claim. By the 1970s many scientists had become (ii) _______their hypothesis, and it was largely(iii) _______as a new set of theories claiming that language and thought are universal came to dominate the field.
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The passage suggests that the "discoveries" indicate which of the following about mud glyphs?
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