Conventional deposits of oil and gas are actually the final resting place of far-traveled hydrocarbons that were (i)_____ deeper source beds of organic-rich rock. By contrast, shale gas (ii)_____ its birthplace, remaining in the source bed whose organic matter produced the gas.
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If the product of 7 consecutive integers is equal to the median of the integers, what is the least of the 7 integers?
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If n is a positive odd integer and $$k=n^{3}+2n$$, what is the value of $$ (-1)^{k}-(-1)^{k+1}$$?
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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Which of the following does the passage cite as an explanation for historians` traditional analysis of the Japanese textile industry?
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The passage is concerned primarily with
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The author the passage mentions the work of Hrdy primarily to
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The information given, if accurate, most strongly supports which of the following hypotheses?
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The author of the passage mentions black holes in order to provide
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Which of the following best describes the organization of the second paragraph?
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For literary critics and book reviewers, the notion of critical authority has become ______in an age of quick, teeming Internet response, where all the old critical standards and parameters are in the process of being reinvented.
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In years prior to the Civil War, Philadelphia's African American press encouraged readers to be vaccinated against the smallpox. This journalistic campaign was initially (i)________, appealing to readers' sense of communal duty, and became even more (ii)________ once the war started, as smallpox outbreaks began to occur on Philadelphia's city skirts.
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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If the information provided is true, which of the following is most strongly supported on the basis of it?
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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Why does the author note that people "make inconsistent choices"?
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Which of the following general criticisms of dialect poetry is mentioned in the passage?
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Select the sentence in which the author articulates the benefits of a tendentious research approach.
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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