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The message the author conveys is that the bluefin tuna fishery worldwide is being mismanaged and that despite a few_____________signs, such as the partial recovery of stocks in some areas, the immediate future looks bleak.
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Those who knew the senator well were convinced that in spite of his (i)_____________ in larger political matters,there was no(ii)_____________in his expressions of feeling for his constituents.
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Until recentily superhero comics were seen as irredeemably(i)_____________; they were widely disparaged for being so(ii)_____________in conception and execution, and anyone who was a fan was given plenty of reasons to be (iii)_____________.
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Organic farming is often thought of as being (i)_____________by its opposition to conventional industrialized agriculture. In truth, however, it is (ii)_____________a unifying rationale for organic agriculture, and many contemporary understandings of organic agriculture are not even (iii)_____________
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The chairman, while saying he will seek to forge a consensus out of a variety of proposals acknowledged that it might not be easy to reconcile the push for a radical overhaul with the stance of those who want_____________change.
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Scientists are a generally _____________lot, but few can match in the depths of her perverse and unmerited obscurity the twentieth*century mathematical genius Amalie Noether.
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Since methane doesn' t last long in the atmosphere, its detection on Mars would indicate_____________source-perhaps a living organism, or an active geological process-and shed valuabie light on whether the planet is habitable.
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The administration has been ruthless in its efforts to foist its policies on the legislature,_____________lawmakers who raise legitimate concerns about those policies.
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Prior to the advent of the scientific method, many were skeptical of experimentation as a means for seeking knowledge. it was widely thought that (i)_____________ could only produce (ii)_____________findings.
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Schmidt' s widely praised book Lives ofthe Poets (1998) was a 900-page meditation on English poetry in which his forceful, witty, sometimes partisan sketches revealed a mind deeply in love with literature. in his recent The First Poets, however, Schmidt seems less (i)_____________his opinions. He is excessively(ii)______________authorities, even when gently rejecting their views, Whenever he is front and center, Schmidt himself is (iii)_____________guide, but this book is clogged with too many pedestrian quotations from academics past and present.
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Despite the_____________behaviors they can exhibit, invertebrates are sometimes regarded by humans as a mindless and unfeeling band of alien critters.
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Trilobites, with their famously distinctive lobed body plans and curious appurtenances, are _____________fossils, the perfect symbols of an archaic world.
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Most travel narratives are, at however unacknowledged a level, about seeking some destination or searching for the meaning of life; they betray a sense of (i)_____________even when affecting to(ii)_____________it. Prokosch, however, seems more than happy to take every moment just as it is； a striking feature of his narrator's travels is that for all the near-constant danger and closeness to incarceration, there is never a very great sense of (iii)_____________
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When philosophers like Plato, Hume, and Schopenhauer write with clarity about problems of the utmost difficulty, such_____________ does not make the problems appear simple or easy to solve: on the contrary, difficulty is exposed as essential to the understanding.
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While most Centaurs (minor planets) are thought to be_____________, astronomers have observed patterns of brightening from the Centaur Chiron, as well as activity similar to that of a streaking comet.
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The author engages the subject firom diverse perspectives, supports his argument well with many examples, and manages to avoid antagonizing others in dealing with a very_____________subject.
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In general, the more that Victorian society felt it had lost contact with the rural, the more the rural became an object of _____________ for metropolitan commentators, who represented it as a moral antidote to urban life.
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The author's deseription of the _____________contamination of ocean water with plastic materials -and the resulting threat to marine life-constitutes a valuable lesson in the urgency of managing trash more responsibly than we currently do.
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The great jazz trumpeter John Birks Gillespie, who was saddled with the nickname "Dizzy" because of his onstage_____________, was always considered a comparatively stable and reliable individual despite the nickname.
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Hotels in major urban markets seem to offer the biggest potential_____________seasoned investors looking to make an investment in the lodging sector, those hotels took the hardest hit during the recession, and analysts expect them to bounce back just as steeply.
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