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Individuals, governments, and companies show ample ability to _____ themselves by setting goals based on current conditions and then blindly following them even when those conditions change drastically.
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The characters in this comic strip fret about the (i)_____ of their “little counterculture lives”, especially when terrible things are happening in the world, but the cartoonist makes their lives (ii)_____ in ways that do not seem (iii)_____ at all. Real things happen here—births, deaths, adoptions, affairs, breakups, commitments, ceremonies, civil union—and they matter.
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A plant-based automobile fuel has just become available in Ternland. A car can be driven as far on a gallon of the new plant-based fuel as a car can be driven on a gallon of gasoline, but a gallon of the plant-based fuel both costs less and results in less pollution. Therefore, drivers in Ternland who switch to it will reduce the amount they spend on fuel in a year while causing less environmental damage.
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
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Although many hypotheses have been proposed to explain why some plant communities are more susceptible than others to invasion by nonnative species, results from field studies have been inconsistent and no general theory of invasibility has yet emerged. However, a theory based on fluctuating resource availability could integrate most existing hypotheses and successfully resolve many of the apparently conflicting and ambiguous results of previous studies. The suggested theory is that a plant community becomes more susceptible to invasion whenever there is an increase in the amount of unused resources.
The diversity in the range of resource-release mechanisms could partly explain the absence of consistent ecological correlates of invasibility. In particular, the theory predicts that there will be no necessary relationship between the species diversity of a plant community and its susceptibility to invasion, since near-complete exploitation can each occur in both species-rich and species-poor communities. Though Lonsdale found a positive association between species richness and invasion, this may arise from the tendency of diverse plant communities to be nutrient poor and therefore more responsive to the effects of human-caused influxes of nutrients.
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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For the first time, funding for designing experiments to be conducted during space flights has been made available by the government space program to university biologists not already employed by the space program. From the fact that little interest has been expressed in this offer, however, it cannot be concluded that virtually the only biologists interested in research that such experiments could address are those biologists already employed by the space program, since _____.
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Which of the following most logically completes the argument given?
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The passage is concerned primarily with
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According to the passage, which of the following is true of an Eurasia-Africa land bridge during ice ages?
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In the passage, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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The passage indicates that the small size of Bishop`s body of work contributed to bringing about which of the following?
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In the context in which it appears, “complexion” most nearly means
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The phrase “These kinds of experiences” in the passage refers to experiences in Lynch's view are
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The passage implies that Lynch would agree that formal political participation
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
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Which of the following, if true about Stanton, most seriously weakens the argument?
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It can be inferred that the author would most likely agree with which of the following assessments of the results from field studies
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According to the author, the theory based on fluctuating resource availability might resolve “apparently conflicting and ambiguous results” because
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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