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Which of the following best describe the function of the highlighted sentence?
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The passage is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?
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In the passage, the function of the highlighted portion( in yeast and worms, metabolism is both sped up and altered) is to
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Select the sentence that suggests a possible reason why Hurston wrote the version of Mules and Men that was published in 1935.
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The union states its position polemically; its leader say they are fighting to save good jobs while ______ corporations replace full-time workers with part-time ones in order to cut down on both wages and benefits.
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The students' _____ natures were in sharp contrast to the imperturbable dispositions of their teacher.
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While early biographies of Florence Nightingale tended to be quite _____, Lytton Strachey's irreverent 1918 essay about her ushered in a new era, making it acceptable, even fashionable, to criticize her.
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One of the peculiarities of humans is that we irrationally gravitate to the predictable and avoid risk, whatever the reasons for this _____, it is hardly a sound basis for dealing with complex, long-term problems.
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Unlike some mammals—cows and sheep, for instance—that are notably _____, lions have a wide range of facial expressions.
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Historian Barbara Alpern Engel's task in writing a book about women in Russia must have been a (i)_____ one, because the (ii)_____ the Russian empire's peoples meant that Russian women could never be treated as a homogeneous group.
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Advocates for workers' rights have adopted a new strategy, one that will require considerable ingenuity but that, if successful, could _____ a movement aimed at making labor rights an unassailable feature of American democracy.
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The mood of the times is no longer one of (i)_____ over our scientific achievements. Doubts and worries beset technical and scientific specialist, as well as the public at large. I do not consider such worries (ii)_____, though they are often based on intuitive feeling rather than on strictly logical arguments.
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In order to cultivate new repertoire, the music industry is providing a hearing for previously _____ composers.
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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