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The team of physicists regarded the data as too_____________not to study with fresh eyes and first questions.
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The research institute publishes new material on its Web site well in advance of its appearance in print; inevitably, there is a lot of dross, but fortunately, much of the material is both ______________ and free.
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The rural Renaissance villas were working buildings. The agricultural world they served is now gone. To see it you therefore have to (i)_____________it, but that can be aided by the nineteenth-century photographs taken just before the agricultural revolution destroyed the old order, Not that those photographs themselves are always completely(ii)_____________: Virginia creeper growing up a Renaissance villa is a botanical anachronism and also (iii)_____________ piece of planting (rats climb up the creepers and get at the grain stored in the attic).
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Personal computers have become so _____________that the use of digital evidence collected from them is now a common part of many criminal and civil investigations.
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Kelly Cherry's fiction speaks to various postmodern debates regarding history and perception, but does not become so abstract that the reader feels the narrative has been_____________an intellectual agenda.
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Instead of flooding reporters with updates, the governor's press office dispenses information with the_____________ of an eyedropper.
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it' s hard to miss a musk ox: the animal looks like a buffalo decked out in a hairy fur coat. And yet,(i)_____________ as it is, this giant, which lives on tundras from Siberia to Greenland, is still surprisingly(ii)_____________.
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curry suggests that what we learn from literature is (i)_____________and might even be(ii)_____________: literature allows us to gain skills and sensitivities that can be difficult to put into words.
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Failure to investigate (i)_____________a proposed new feature is desired by potential consumers of a product can lead to expensive mistakes: money is invested to incorporate the feature, whose value in the marketplace then turns out to be (ii)_____________. Yet equally, relying on what consumers say can lead to potentially profitable innovations being (iii)_____________. Consumers do not necessarily at once recognize how a new feature will expand the potential of an apparently familiar product.
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Millville has its share of suburban eyesores-cement-block strip malls, rows of fast-food restaurants，and_____________ split-level homes marching up hillsides denuded of trees.
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Since it is an incredible challenge to detect dark matter directly, scientists have_____________ its existence from its gravitational effects on shaping galaxies and other large-scale structures.
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The mechanism for anticlockwise rotation of Borneo remains_____________，and many geologists continue to be skeptical because it is difficult to satisfactorily incorporate into regional tectonics.
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Many of her followers remain (i)_____________to her, and even those who have rejected her leadership are unconvinced of the(ii)_____________of replacing her during the current turmoil.
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The most famous point of the supposedly iconoclastic speech made by the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson was actually quite (i)_____________. For at least a quarter century before Emerson, American intellectuals had issued ritual warnings about listening too much to the muses of Europe and insisted that the American day of intellectual dependence was drawing to a close. What is remarkable is that in his speech Emerson (ii)_____________, considering that he was himself so (iii)_____________European thought and literature.
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The contribution of a proliferation of new courses intended to broaden the knowledge and experiences of university students will be_____________
unless the new courses draw students' attention away from core courses and basic concepts and skills.
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Primates are,for the most part, very_____________:walk through a tropical forest, and it is highly likely that if you encounter any mammals, it will be a primate that you see or hear.
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The Chippewa regarded their treaties with the federal government as solemn covenants and therefore, throughout the twentieth century, met efforts by governmental officials to_____________those treaties with both open and hidden resistance.
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Few meteorites are _____________: most languish for many years before being found, their untold stories slowly fading from extended exposure to wind and rain.
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The new editor's (i)_____________ has unquestionably benefited the magazine, It has reorienfed the publication toward (ii)_____________ joumalism and rescued it from the (iii)_____________ course it had been pursuing in recent vears, when it expanded its coverage of frivolous celebrity gossip to compete with tabloids. l may not sell as many copies as it once did, but it is a better, more eamestly thoughtful magazine.
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Although Beatrice Webb's career ostensibly involved_____________ shift from philanthropy to socinl researeh, her stories suggest that working in nineteenth-century London involved a complex negotiation between the two roles.
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