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In the northeastern United States, beaver populations had been critically reduced or even _____ in large areas at the end of nineteenth century; as a result, several states instituted prohibitions on beaver trapping.
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Because movie studios, under pressure to generate international sales, have favored big-budget pictures with fantasy plots, the representation of everyday domestic life has largely been _____ other media, such as television and literature.
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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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As a historical genre, biography is best when _____, a careful reconstruction of the past in all its unfamiliar particularity.
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Though humanitarian emergencies are frequent features of television news, such exposure seldom _____ the public, which rather seems resigned to a sense of impotency.
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The ambassador's critical remarks seemed to be less a product of _____ and more the careless utterances of a fatigued or undisciplined individual.
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Individuals, governments, and companies show ample ability to _____ themselves by setting goals based on current conditions and then blindly following them even when those conditions change drastically.
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Coagulation factors are useful proteins whose simple names—many are known only by Roman numerals—_____ their importance and the specificity of their roles in the thinning and clotting of blood.
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The characters in this comic strip fret about the (i)_____ of their “little counterculture lives”, especially when terrible things are happening in the world, but the cartoonist makes their lives (ii)_____ in ways that do not seem (iii)_____ at all. Real things happen here—births, deaths, adoptions, affairs, breakups, commitments, ceremonies, civil union—and they matter.
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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According to the passage, village sketches written by women in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s typically reflected
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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As discussed in the passage, the literary scholars and the historians differ in which of the following ways?
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Which of the following most logically completes the argument?
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The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?
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The lack of (i)______ the poetry of the postwar decades has led not, as one might have expected, to (ii)______ poetry, but to a curious closure in which all poets and forms of poetry are (iii)_______ and alone, not even respected establishment poets, command excitement.
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Among geophysicists there was considerably less (i)_________ the proposed environment measure than the (ii)_______ media accounts of the conference would suggest: the debate was often animated but never uncivil.
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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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Rosen argues that in the early years of the United States, individual states played important roles in the governance of American Indians, thereby ________ the common assumption that Indian policy was exclusively the federal government's domain.
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