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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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The passage suggests which of the following about the "contradiction" mentioned in the highlighted sentence?
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Greenhouse gases emitted into atmosphere are virtually permanent, and because they (i)_________ in the atmosphere, their effects is (ii)_______. These facts necessitate that policies related to greenhouse gases differ from policies related to various pollutants whose effects are (iii)______ and often temporary.
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The geographer held a (i)________ view of the succession of theoretical trends( environmental determinism, spatial determinism, and various types of critical theory) in her field, maintaining that theory can (ii)________ what is transpiring in a complex environment by focusing excessively on the favored schemes and variables of the moment.
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It is possible to (i)________ the benefits of diplomatic dialogue, because although it can certainly alleviate some of the problems that afflicts us, it is not a (ii)_________.
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While many books have emphasized the differences between Delaney and his father—and his need to differentiate himself from his father—Delaney takes pains in this memoir to________ his closeness with his dad.
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Many people perceive an unearned grandiosity at work in the news business and given that perception, it should be no surprise that they have such a strong________ for the business.
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The passage implies that Du Bois attributed which of the following beliefs to Spencerian sociologists?
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The author implies which of the following about natural resources in South China prior to 6,500 years ago?
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Which of the following, if true, would enable the conclusion of the argument to be properly drawn?
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There is a revelation on almost every page of this book, and the author's prose is _____ in the best possible way: blunt, sweet, off-kilter, and often quite funny.
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Which of the following general criticisms of dialect poetry is mentioned in the passage?
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Space is often referred to as the final frontier, as the only realm of which humankind has still to gain substantial understanding, yet the ocean realm is another vast area about which our knowledge is _____.
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The monitoring is not _____: on the contrary, the defendant and his or her attorney are required to be given notice of the governments listening activities.
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Analysis for the structural feature that were thought to _____ kinship between the two species prompted an investigation that dispelled that presumption and revealed that the two share a family history.
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In its few decades of existence, the field of technology assessment has undergone large changes: its original high ambitions to predict consequences of technology have been _____ if not discarded.
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Shirky argues that the Internet (i)_____ the needs for hierarchical structures and the sluggish organizations that (ii)_____ them: the Internet makes it possible to do things cheaply and efficiently on one's own.
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Not only is the field of behavioral genetics strewn with (i)_____ findings, but even among those findings that managed to survive, many have turned out to be (ii)_____ a very restricted class of cases.
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Many historians of the ancient world are wary of sounding (i)_____. Write so much as a sentence and the temptation is immediately to (ii)_____ it. Even in cases when the sources for a given event are (iii)_____, uncertainties and discrepancies crop up everywhere.
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An abundance of nutrient-rich pollution in estuaries causes algae to _____________, much as houseplants grow better when their soil contains added fertilizer.
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