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The national bank has been uncommonly powerful in comparison to its counterparts in other nations. It remains this potency partly because its control of the nation's banking system is (i)_____ governmental interference, and thus its actions remain largely (ii)_____.
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Few studies have been published on ground-squirrel dispersal, and most of them have involved very small sample sizes, thus most statement regarding ground-squirrel dispersal must be considered _____.
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The paleontologist examined the problem afresh, believing that the accepted classification _____ the essential continuity of the specimens by making specious distinctions among them.
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It would be naive to treat remarks made in diaries or personal letters as giving especially candid access to historical truth or even as being expressions of the writer`s true state of mind, since the (i)_____ for exaggeration and deception in those forms is virtually nonexistent. Diaries and letters are rarely sites for (ii)_____.
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There are two opposing theories about mountain formation and climate over the past 40 million years: either the surge of mountain building (i)_____ the global cooling or vice versa. The first of these two theories asserts that widespread mountain building cooled the earth as a result of the (ii)_____ mountains and climate. For example, mountain glaciers tend to be (iii)_____: once established, they increase the reflectivity of the surface, thus lowering temperatures and allowing more ice to form.
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Communicating articulately is typically regarded as an aggressive, persuasive talent, but it can also be protective: it allows a certain _____ closeness, conveying proximity while actually maintaining distance.
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Neuroscientists are excited by technological progress that facilitates brain mapping, the most _____ of them comparing their growing abilities to tremendous advances that led to unimaginable success of the Human Genome Project.
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Partly because of Lee's skill at synthesizing (i)_____ trends drawn from many fields of study, her theories appeared to present, with uncanny aptness, ideas already (ii)_____ in the minds of her contemporaries.
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The writer argues that jewelry-grade diamonds, because they are both (i)_____ and (ii)_____, prove one of two conclusions; their purchasers have so much money they can spend it on goods that (iii)_____, or their purchasers are so committed to making others think they have such wealth that they are willing to go into debt to do so.
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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The author of the passage mentions Crown and Wills primarily in order to
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According to the passage, astronomers recognize which of the following as being liable to cause changes to comets?
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage suggest that Matthew Arnold disapproved of Charlotte Bronte' s fiction insofar as he believed that it
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The passage suggest that Gaskell' s biography of Charlotte Bronte advanced the idea that Bronte was
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According to the passage, which of the following is true of an Eurasia-Africa land bridge during ice ages?
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The author of the passage implies that during the “short lag”, a land bridge between Africa and Eurasia would
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According to the passage, which of the following best accounts for the apparent bias in antelope-migration direction?
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Select a sentence in the passage that summarizes the author's primary opposition to a particular approach taken by Minoan archaeologists.
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