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Life on Europa in the form suggested in the passage would be dependent on
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Even the cleverest use of time management techniques is powerless to _____ the sum of minutes in a person's life (over 52 million, optimistically assuming a life expectancy of 100 years ), so people squeeze as much as they could into each one of them.
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Many scholars have argued that the United States Supreme Court usually (i)_____ public opinion in its decisions because it fears that it will (ii)_____ if does not; when it does depart from public opinion, it whips up political maelstroms.
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Historically, the depletion of soil's nitrogen has been one of the most _____ problems faced by farmers: an essential nutrient, nitrogen is quickly leached from soil, and farmers have struggled to find ways to replenish it.
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In order to cultivate new repertoire, the music industry is providing a hearing for previously _____ composers.
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We often regard natural phenomena like rainfall as mysterious and unpredictable; although for short time spans and particular places they appear so, in fact on a truly global scale, nature has been a model of _____.
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Which of the following, if true, most weakens the argument?
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For the early years of the twentieth century, ecology remained essentially a ______ science: ecologists went into the field, counted plants and animals, made lists, and that was pretty much that.
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The (i)______ of the entrepreneur that the microfinance boom has helped foster is understandably appealing. But thinking that everyone is, and should be, an entrepreneur can encourage a tendency to (ii)_____ the virtues of larger businesses and the income that a steady job can provide.
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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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Which of the following, if true, would enable the conclusion of the argument to be properly drawn?
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Which of the following statements about the development of the piano can be inferred from the passage?
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For parents, the pleasure of letting children choose which book to read aloud together is not always ____________: I well remembered my inner groans when my child would constantly pick my least favorite book from the shelf.
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Baker was struck by the amount of _____ she saw at the renowned medical facility; for all their experience, the physicians could not seem to agree on the correct diagnosis for any given patient.
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The Red Sea town of Aydhab presents scholars with _____: medieval records describe it as a major port for ships engaged in trade, yet today there is no trace of a viable harbor at the site.
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Sokari Douglas Camp was _____ in the early 1990s by many of London's commercially driven art dealers and galleries, some of whom apparently found her themes difficult to market.
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Mike, Scott, Jim, Kate, and Pete each have a different number of assignments this month. Pete has fewer assignments than Kate, Kate has more assignments than Mike, Mike has more assignments than Jim, and Jim has more assignments than Scott. Which of the following could be the person who has the median number of assignments this month for the five people listed?
Indicate all such people.
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