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One way to predict the effects of global climate change on an ecosystem is to extrapolate current trend in global change factors into the future. A (i)_____ of this method is that its predictions (ii)_____ actual observation, but the method also makes the questionable assumption that the future will resemble the present.
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The new art museum's (i)_____ building augurs well for that ambitious institution because it speaks of (ii)_____ contemporary architecture on the part of the board of directors that may (iii)_____ equal astuteness about contemporary art.
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Although the essayist`s arguments did not _____ her most perceptive readers, the extreme subtlety of the points she made explains why she was misinterpreted by most critics of her day.
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According to the passage, astronomers recognize which of the following as being liable to cause changes to comets?
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To pay for the extra spending under this international poverty plan, each American would have to contribute less than the cost of buying a premium cup of coffee once a week. But financial aid is not (i)_____, and even if the funding recommended here were to (ii)_____, the grandest objectives may well remain unfulfilled. Nonetheless, carefully targeted aid can reward responsible governments, (iii)_____ individual initiative, and alleviate suffering. Many will think that's worth of a cup of coffee.
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The laboratory maze has grown ever less _____ since it was first invented instead of hoping to lose a rodent in a labyrinth; today's scientists design mazes to elicit a few simple, easily measured behaviors.
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Although New York exhilarated him, even at first Leger's reaction to it was not _____: he was initially bothered by its stunning verticality.
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The nineteenth-century legislator Robert Barnwell Rhett was known for using language so intemperate that even in an era of considerable political ______, it came almost to occupy a category of its own.
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Although critics and curators have placed Romare Bearden in any number of contexts-with collage artists, with Black Atlantic artists, among American Abstractionists, or with artists from the Civil Rights era—he (i) ___________ the (ii) ___________ of the conventional art world.
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Mathematical knowledge has long been regarded as being essentially stable and hence rooted in a world of ideas only superficially __________ to historical forces.
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Given the important role that apologies can play in human relations and the almost daily news reports of the latest celebrity or political apology, the ____________ of empirical research on the subject is surprising.
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California's building codes are more _____________ than those elsewhere in the United States to ensure that structures are capable of protecting people from frequent seismic events.
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Some species' camouflage patterns may be _____________, granting those species a higher chance of survival in a heterogeneous environment.
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Scientists are finding that the adult brain is for more _____________ than they once thought: our behavior and environment can cause substantial rewiring of the brain or a reorganization of its functions and where they are located.
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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According to the passage, scholars have not given sensationalism serious consideration because they believe sensationalism
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Studies of almanacs written in the United States in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries have not been particularly ____________: only recently have scholars begun to use almanacs in more insightful ways to analyze scientific beliefs, politics, and ideology.
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One explanation for the (i)____________ science in late antiquity has to do with the (ii)____________ of science and technology: given the prevailing belief that natural knowledge should not be applied to practical ends, the incentive for scientists to search for practical applications of abstract theories of nature was (iii)____________.
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It can be inferred from the passage that members of "feminist consciousness-raising groups"
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The author's reference to the fact that "even low elemental concentrations and minute features in diamonds can now be analyzed" serves primarily to
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