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A recent study shows that farmers have a 40 percent lower risk of developing various common forms of cancer than people in the general population do. Farmers are more active than most people are, but even taking this into account, farmers had a significantly lower cancer risk. Therefore, it is likely that some substances that farmers are typically exposed to in the course of their work lower the risk of developing these forms of cancer.
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Which of the following, if discovered to be true, would cast the most serious doubt on the argument?
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According to the passage, which of the following statements about tea consumption in India is true?
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It can be inferred from the passage that the Tea Cess Committee reorganized as the Indian Tea Market Expansion Board in order to
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The brain' s fusiform face area (FFA) responds to images of faces, leading some neuroscientists to theorize that the region is hardwired for facial recognition. Others support the expertise hypothesis, which holds that humans use those same brain circuits to distinguish between all objects with which they have developed considerable familiarity. According to them, humans excel at recognizing faces because most have been doing so all their lives, not because of any specialized brain structures. This theory explains why the FFA of a birdwatcher, for example, will activate for both faces and birds. And while FFA responses for other objects are considerably weaker than those for faces, even dedicated birdwatchers have probably spent considerably less time studying birds than looking at faces.
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In the passage as a whole, the highlighted portion primarily serves to
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The two groups of neuroscientists mentioned in the passage would likely agree on which of the following statements regarding the brain' s FFA? (Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.）
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She is (i)_________ on the Senate floor, just as she is elsewhere: her speech is (ii)_________ with the verbal pomposity of much senatorial oratory.
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As a consequence of his need for (i)________ and his (ii)________ self-advertisement, Joseph Duveen' s career is better known than those of most of his fellow dealers of museum-quality material. The Wildensteins, for instance, were far more successful financially, but they were (iii)________ beyond measure.
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Researchers' use of charcoal particles in soil as a marker for human arrival in prehistoric North America is ________: fire was a part of the continent' s natural ecology long before humans appeared.
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Laboratory experiments testing whether memories can be purposely erased or implanted seem decidedly _________ compared to the sensational depictions of memory manipulation in movies, but such research has nevertheless yielded dramatic results.
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In the final scene of the movie, the character exhibits an almost unbelievable _________, remaining imperturbable in the face of intense and immediate physical danger.
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Though acknowledging the unstated assumptions that commentators on her paper had identified, the geologist pointed out that such assumptions were (i)________ the context of her research, and therefore their existence did not (ii)_________ her conclusions.
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When film adaptations of literary classics are lackluster it is often because they (i)________ a certain (ii)________ to the cultural prestige of literature. The good ones, by contrast, succeed through the arrogant assumption that a great novel is not a (iii)_________ artifact but rather a lump of interesting material to be shaped according to the filmmaker's will.
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The book is a determinedly apolitical writer's attempt to deal with an explosive subject, and some readers will think it too ________: they will miss the impassioned engagement found in the works of her peers.
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When an organism is functioning normally, excessive fat is stored in adipose tissue. Thus, the (i)________ of such tissue may be (ii)________ the fat is diverted to other organs, such as the liver and the heart, causing serious health problems.
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In our solar system, Earth is the most ________ of the rocky, or terrestrial, planets, so when first searching beyond the solar system, scientists were not accustomed to planets of similar composition but many times the mass.
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The actor was quick to warn new members of the cast that the director's cherubic countenance belied ________ temperament.
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Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was just nineteen years old when Futurism erupted, but she later heeded that violent, belligerent art movement' s call in the (i)________ of her broad-shouldered suits, the rawness of her furs and embroidery, and her (ii)________ attitude, which her contemporaries described as "hard chic," toward any simpering or mincing in fashion.
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