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In the passage, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "contradiction" mentioned in the highlighted sentence?
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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 author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about Windes' argument?
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In the highlighted portion of the passage, the author assumes that
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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In light of the claim made by the "researchers", it can be inferred that ants` ability to distinguish their own pheromones from these of nest mates is important primarily because
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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Knowing how (i)_____ she was at work, her colleagues were surprised at her (ii)_____
throughout the dinner.
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There has been (i)_____ elephant's fabled mental capacities until recently, when these behavioral observations have begun to be (ii)____ by brain science. MRI scans of an elephant's brain suggest that even relative to its overall size it has a large hippocampus, the component in the mammalian brain linked to memory and an important part of its limbic system, which is involved in precessing emotions.
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Three of the nation's largest airlines could be operating under bankruptcy protection in coming weeks, analysts say, the latest sign of the industry's ___ as it lurches through a historic transformation.
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As a way of _____ the negative impacts of overdependence on a single export product—crude oil, the Nigerian government passed legislation in 1999 intended to revitalize the moribund solid minerals sector.
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Because the organization often trumpeted itself as a forum for _____ discussion, visitors were startled by the frequently heated tone of its recent debates.
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The often-cited parallels between human communities and insect colonies are _____: the cooperation found among social insects is essentially due to the insects genetic ties, while humans often collaborate with non-relatives.
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The nineteenth-century legislator Robert Barnwell Rhett was known for using language so intemperate that even in an era of considerable political ______, it came almost to occupy a category of its own.
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The average (arithmetic mean) of the coordinates of the 7 labeled points on the number line is how much greater or less than the median of the coordinates of the 7 labeled points?
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The thin rectangular sheet of metal shown in the figure is 8 inches wide and $$x$$ inches long. An open box is to be made by cutting a 2-inch square from each corner of the sheet of metal and then folding up the sides. If the volume of the box is to be 48 cubic inches, what is the value of $$x$$ ?
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