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Biographies tumble off the presses in profusion these days, a (i)_______ linked, for better or worse, to the current obsession with celebrity. Some critics complain that biographers too often (ii)_______ the messy reality of a life, and it' s true that lesser authors simply glorify or, more often, vilify their subjects. But good biographers are far more respectful of (iii)_______: the best see not one monolithic truth about a person but many overlapping truths.
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The most pervasive myth about mathematics is that the logical structure of mathematics is _______, that logic captures the essence of the subject.
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According to Asian-American artist Mia Locks, although many people think of art as (i)_______, artists do not (ii)_______ social life: they contribute to it through a range of means and methodologies, materials and forms.
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The notion of popular science or of the public understanding of science is very much a concern in today' s world, where we can see (i)_______ between science and nonscience. But in the nineteenth century, there was still an enviable mixing and cross-fertilization between seemingly (ii)_______ subjects, and there was no (iii)________ what counted as science, let alone how a public understanding might differ from any other sort of understanding.
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Biologist Catherine Graham, studying toucans in Mexico, predicted that because toucans prefer relatively large forest patches and feed on fruit, they would fly more often to (i)_______ patches and to patches with abundant fruit resources than to small patches or those that had (ii)_______ fruit resources.
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Once photographs depicting important family events such as vacations or weddings are assembled and presented in a family album, the collection of photographs is treated as (i)________ record of events; but what we (ii)________ to (iii)________ is the active selection process that led to the making of the album.
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The museum' s display of bandolier bags made by Ojibwa artists of the Mille Lacs community reinforces the idea that this community' s culture is _______ one: early twentieth-century bandolier bags are displayed alongside others made recently.
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While the rate at which absolute global sea level is rising may seem _______, it has been far from an incidental factor in human history.
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Age data from meteorites suggests that, in contrast to the relatively ________ pace of planetary evolution we are witnessing today, the first ten million years or so of our solar system history were extremely eventful.
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A recent survey of 120 United States corporations found that a third of employees in blue-chip corporations wrote poorly in their electronic mail. Millions of these (i)________ e-mail messages are clogging computers by setting off requests for (ii)________, and many of the requests, in turn, are also (iii)________ written, resulting in whole cycles of confusion.
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Because Earth' s atmosphere distorts astronomical observations, whatever tends to _______ its influence is dismaying to the astronomer.
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The author' s new novel is everything that her first was not: obvious and (i)________ rather than understated and subtly shaded. Instead of quietly revealing themselves through tiny, unexpected gestures, the characters are forced to make (ii)________ statements that announce exactly what they are thinking and serve primarily to underscore the author' s sociological points. There are occasional glimpses of the (iii)________ and emotional wisdom so lavishly demonstrated in the author' s previous novel-gifts, the reader hopes, that will be more fruitfully employed in her next.
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Although seventeenth-century Europeans thought of the blue-and-white porcelain they imported as quintessentially Chinese, the style was a borrowed, or at least adapted, one. When Chinese potters began firing true porcelain in the fourteenth century, both China and Persia were under Mongol rule, facilitating trade between the two regions. Persians had prized imported Chinese ceramics since the 700s. Unable to match the whiteness of the Chinese imports' clay, Persian potters masked gray clay with white glaze decorated with blue figures using local cobalt. Chinese potters adjusted the look of their products to appeal to Persian buyers, incorporating cobalt decoration into their designs. As Chinese cobalt is paler than Persian cobalt, Chinese potters began importing Persian cobalt to produce a color intended to appeal to Persian buyers.
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The author mentions "Mongol rule" primarily in order to
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The passage suggests which of the following about trade between China and Persia? (Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.)
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The trader' s dilemma, which typically occurs in peasant villages, arises in two contexts. First, the trader buys agricultural products in his or her village; although these products are often resold outside the village at a market, where laws of supply and demand exist and profit margins are rather limited, the trader nevertheless feels morally obliged to pay fellow villagers a good price for their products or even eventually to share profits with those villagers. Second, in his or her village shop, the trader sells imported products, but because of villagers' constrained finances must do so at reduced price, or even on credit. In both cases, the trader confronts the risk of either losing working capital or losing the respect and moral support of neighbors and kinfolk.
A classical way out of the dilemma, according to Evers, is sociocultural differentiation of peasants and traders into two separate, locally coexisting moral communities. Evers' point is theoretically significant because it implies that such differentiation may be economically rather than politically motivated. Thus, while in many societies traders are strangers, a migrant minority, it may also happen that a resident trading minority itself creates cultural distance in order to find a solution for the trader' s dilemma, which thus may drive sociocultural change.
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Which of the following gives the most accurate definition of the trader' s dilemma, as it is presented in the passage?
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According to the passage, the "sociocultural change" alluded to in the passage would occur as a result of
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It can be inferred that the "way out of the dilemma" described by Evers works by allowing
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Demographic data for Ollene Province indicate that over the next ten years the number of teenagers will decline and the number of children under the age of ten will rise. Most parents whose children are under ten and who want childcare during evening hours hire a babysitter who comes to their home, and virtually all babysitters are teenagers. Therefore, parents who want childcare during evening hours will have an increasingly hard time finding an available babysitter.
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