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Responsibility for the nation's decline rests squarely with a people who take for granted their claims to preeminence but do not ____________ interest in or commitment to actually maintaining it.
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The photocopier, widely adopted in the 1960s, became not merely a vehicle for copying but one for publishing in ____________ manner, so that ideas could be circulated without interference from potential censors.
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The safety features of modern cars have actually had ____________ effect on people's driving: drivers are lulled into a false sense of security by their cars' sophistication and therefore drive less attentively.
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The myth of the scientific method as a neat progression from hypothesis to experiment to conclusion is dispelled once you enter a lab and observe the _____________ process by which researchers actually make discoveries.
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The reliable production of usable energy through the controlled fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium remains an elusive dream: even the most ardent efforts to achieve it have thus far been _____________.
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In his writings on Bob Dylan, Greil Marcus is admirably _____________: he knows that not to hold Dylan to the highest possible standard is to condescend to him.
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The series of documentaries certainly does seem to promote the country's recent diplomatic initiatives; in fact, some of the films appear to be _____________ those initiatives.
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The rebellion was _____________ one, driven less by ardor than by reason and calculation.
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The concept of the Hellenistic period in ancient history has proved useful but also _____________, with scholars disagreeing on the dates when the period began and ended.
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In the 1980s the press release announcing the discovery of a new fundamental particle turned a once _____________ hypothesis of interest to no more than a few hundred physicists into an undisputed fact of global significance.
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Whereas the original editor had sacrificed clarity for brevity and her successor had been too _____________, the new editor took an intermediate approach, explicit as to the purport of each document and not too ambitious in detail.
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The intense interest in probing the Martian soil for water is no mere (i)________ preoccupation. Beyond solving the mystery of where Mars's surface water went, scientists are simply being (ii)________. Human exploration or even settlement of Mars is being considered as a real possibility, and it certainly will not be cost-effective to (iii)________ water.
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In hindsight, it is easy to say that the geological evidence for ice ages was _____________ and to wonder why such periods in the Earth's past were not recognized earlier.
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In literature, thrillers thrive on heroes and villains, and usually the characterization is not very _____________; writers don't want to confuse or slow the plot.
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The tape recorder is to blame for the (i) _____________ of the interview and has thus had a (ii) _____________ effect on journalism. The possibility of verbatim reproduction has fostered the illusion that the voice of truth is that of the interviewee rather than the more critically detached voice belonging to the journalist. Maybe journalists should return to the lowly notebook, which allows them to (iii) _____________ while listening, relegating the tape recorder to its real role of invaluable witness.
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Parker's model of human affairs reflects (i) _____________outlook, in stark contrast to the generally (ii) _____________ analyses of her colleagues in the economics department.
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Scholars often attribute the emergence of a new conception of women writers as literary artists to elite, male- dominated venues like the Atlantic Monthly, which gained influence during the 1860s and 1870s. The careers of Mary Gibson and other women writing during the 1850s, however, suggest a different account of the transformation of American female authorship-pushing its inception into the antebellum period and locating its origins in more popular venues. Far from waiting for the elite imprimatur of the Atlantic, writers like Gibson took advantage of the opportunities for publication provided by midcentury story papers (periodicals containing popular fiction). Women supplied much of the material for story papers and, in the process, presented striking images of female authorship and artistry to thousands of readers.
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The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about writers like Gibson?
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Which statement best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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While marine hermit crabs are well known for being omnivorous filter feeders, less is known about the role they may play as active camion scavengers in intertidal ecosystems. Prior studies have revealed that intertidal hermit crabs can be attracted to chemical cues from gastropods(snails) killed by predators. Yet their attraction is usually assumed to be driven primarily by the availability of new shells for shelters rather than by food. Researchers conducted field experiments to assess hermit crabs' potential role as generalist carrion scavengers on the California coast, examining their speed of attraction and the size of the aggregations they formed in response to chemical cues from freshly smashed gastropods and mussels both of which indicated available carrion. Compared to all other marine species, hermit crabs were the fastest to arrive at the provisioning sites. Hermit crabs also dominated the provisioning sites, accumulating in the largest numbers, with aggregations of up to 20 individuals, which outcompeted all other scavengers for carrion. Notably, hermit crabs arrived equally quickly for both smashed gastropod and mussel, even though the latter does not offer suitable shells for hermit crabs and even though the former only yields shell-related chemical cues over time frames longer than the experiments. These results thus suggest that shell availability is not the only, or even the primary reason marine intertidal hermit crabs aggregate at carrion sites; they also aggregate to forage, thereby playing an important role as active carrion scavengers in intertidal ecosystems.
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