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Influenza is ____________ virus: it is full of surprises and newness, prone to mutation and reassortment.
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In 1998, observations of a (i)____________ in the growth of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, suggested that many of the scenarios for global warming provided in a 1995 assessment may have been overly (ii)____________. Celebration was, however, premature: subsequent research has established that the observed phenomena were likely caused by (iii)____________ declines in industrial and natural emissions.
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Japan's first university was more (i)_______________ than its Chinese counterparts in the same era, since the Chinese Tang system was highly (ii)_____________. However, this changed over time. As Japanese court offices became increasingly hereditary, the examination system, by which students from a wide range of social classes were admitted into the universities, (iii)____________.
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Life on Europa in the form suggested in the passage would be dependent on
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The highlighted sentence serves to introduce
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It can be inferred from the passage that toward the end of the Middle Ming period
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It can be inferred from the passage that Governor Zhu Wan most likely
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The passage suggests that the large-scale export of Chinese porcelain after 1488
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Ancient coins displayed in museums are almost by definition ____________, on display precisely because they are the most beautiful, the most elaborate, and the best-preserved samples.
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Although traditionally artists have rightly been seen as the most ____________ audience for the work of their colleagues, today taste is also created by critics and curators and occasionally by collectors.
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Debates over technologies often ____________ their development: we can reflect on many of the social and ethical issues that the possibility of geoengineering the climate raises right as these technologies are coming into existence.
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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According to the passage, scholars have not given sensationalism serious consideration because they believe sensationalism
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In the context in which it appears, "charged" most nearly means
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