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The author of the passage mentions eighteenth-century advertising primarily in order to
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "scholars"?
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According to the passage, which of the following is true about Chaudhuri's work?
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It can be inferred that the author of the passage would agree with which of the following statements about Chaudhuri's work?
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It can be inferred that the author of the passage most probably mentions Salman Rushdie as an example of a writer who
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The new editor's (i)_____________ has unquestionably benefited the magazine, It has reorienfed the publication toward (ii)_____________ joumalism and rescued it from the (iii)_____________ course it had been pursuing in recent vears, when it expanded its coverage of frivolous celebrity gossip to compete with tabloids. l may not sell as many copies as it once did, but it is a better, more eamestly thoughtful magazine.
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Although Beatrice Webb's career ostensibly involved_____________ shift from philanthropy to socinl researeh, her stories suggest that working in nineteenth-century London involved a complex negotiation between the two roles.
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Taken together, that ill-assorted pair, Johannes Itten and Walter Gropius, expressed how (i) _____________the Bauhaus School's nature actually was. It was at once utopian and (ii)_____________, intuitive and scientific, highly ordered and subversively anarchic.
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Although the (i)_____________ nature of her account of the attack produces (ii) _____________ that makes us withhold both our sympathy and our revulsion, other scenes are less (iii) _____________: she describes Noceba's joumey to the hospital with an economy that makes the danger especinlly palpable.
Blank (i)
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The standard wisdom now is that sciences undergo periodic ruptures so thorough that the generations of scientists on either side of the break express themselves in mutually_____________ languages.
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Perhaps the best one can say of this new book of criticism is that it is scintillatingly (i)_____________. The author is adept at dealing with trivial details in the poets he studies, but he is quite (ii)_____________ when it comes to illuminating the overall vision. The verbal intricacy and panache of his writing contrast with its conceptual (iii) _____________. lf there are very few authentic ideas in the poems under consideration, there is also a shortage of them in the author's commentary.
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One object of examining past medical practices is to identify useful knowledge amid its now outmoded trappings; the alternative is to let such knowledge _____________ along with the discredited theories with which it was associated.
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In a time when so much new concert music failed to speak to listeners, the composer's symphonies expressed with _____________ wit and scorching emotional power the tragic history he lived through.
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The late nineteenth century saw a shift in the production of African American history writing as works by _____________ authors came to be outnumbered by the publications of professional African American academics.
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.Given that in human prehistory social life was organized in close-knit communities, early forms of economic exchange were probably (i) _____________ other social relations; however, with trade taking place across ever greater geographic distances, there is evidence that economic and social networks became increasingly (ii) _____________.
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Finally, here is a biography of the musical theater colossus Stephen Sondheim that is informative and perceptive rather than a plodding and-then-he-wrote chronology or a fan's outpouring of unvarnished _____________.
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Paradoxically, the 1980s creations of avant-garde desiqners such as Rei Kawakubo, defined by their divergence from traditional Japanese fashions, came to be seen as_____________ Japanese garments.
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The snow-covered surface of the lake presents a reassuring illusion of _____________, but beneath the snow the ice is riven with treacherous cracks.
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Central control of the country's power grid is difficult because of the _____________ of the electricity industry-it is made up of hundreds of local networks with separate owners.
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The songwriter' s (i) _____________ nature can lead her audiences to forget that her songs are about painful experiences just as often as they are about (ii) ______________ ones.
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