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The photocopier, widely adopted in the 1960s, became not merely a vehicle for copying but one for publishing in ____________ manner, so that ideas could be circulated without interference from potential censors.
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The (i) _____________ seen in most of eastern Eurasia is (ii) _____________ on the Mongolian plateau, despite only 200 millimeters of annual precipitation, because evaporation decreases at higher altitudes and latitudes.
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Climate change is posited to be a frequent factor in mass extinctions by some scientists who speculate that minor climate shifts can trigger a catastrophic cascade of effects. Although this pattern is (i) _____________ in that it confirm warnings about our own possibly dire future, it is also somehow (ii) _____________, as it sets forth a context for today's turbulent weather as (iii) _____________ in a natural, cyclical process.
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The danger of isolation appears often in Anishinaabe stories but is nowhere more_______than in the Cree and Ojibwa tales about the Windigo, a terrifying ice monster that is literally a lost soul.
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In a production process that is complex and often unpredictable, roles that start out discretely defined may become quite _____________.
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The scholars' hypothesis challenges the scope of human psychological and behavioral universals, but does not dispense with them entirely: the team remains confident that displays of pride, for instance, are _____________.
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This is neither praise nor criticism, neither a compliment nor _____________, just an observation.
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To write convincing fiction about the tedium of ordinary life may be one of the hardest challenges facing a novelist, who must find a way to engage the reader despite a focus on _____________ events.
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Although evolutionary psychologists do not seem quite as imperialist in their intellectual ambitions as their sociobiologist forebears of the 1970s, they tend, in some critics' view, to be no less _____________ in their claims.
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According to the passage, which of the following details regarding the lotus-shaped ewer supports the claim of the "other authorities" about the dating of that ewer?
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The passage implies that its author would agree with which of the following statements about “historical fiction, biography, court memoirs, and family history"?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Let $$q$$ be a prime number less than $$100$$. When $$q$$ is divided by $$5$$, the remainder is $$2$$. When $$q$$ is divided by $$7$$, the remainder is $$6$$, what is the remainder when $$q$$ is divided by $$8$$?
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What`s the remainder when $$3^{82}$$ is divided by 5?
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The retail price of each item in a certain store consists of the cost of the item, a profit that is 10 percent of the cost, and an overhead that is 30 percent of the cost. If an item in the store has a retail price of $21, what is the cost of the item?
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x is an odd integer, and y is a multiple of x. Which of the following must be an even integer?
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Genetic diversity is the raw material of evolution including the domestication of plants, yet the domestication process typically ____________ diversity because the first domesticates are derived from a very small sample of the individual plants.
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Light travels at approximately 186,000 miles per second. Which of the following is closest to the number of miles that light travels in 3 hours?
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