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Though humanitarian emergencies are frequent features of television news, such exposure seldom _____ the public, which rather seems resigned to a sense of impotency.
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Blake's reputation for weakness is _____: almost all who have worked with him say he is a disciplined, intellectually formidable, and very tough politician.
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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The author of the passage mentions Crown and Wills primarily in order to
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According to the passage, astronomers recognize which of the following as being liable to cause changes to comets?
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Which of the following most logically completes the argument given?
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As discussed in the passage, the literary scholars and the historians differ in which of the following ways?
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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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The author of the passage mentions black holes in order to provide
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The lack of (i)______ the poetry of the postwar decades has led not, as one might have expected, to (ii)______ poetry, but to a curious closure in which all poets and forms of poetry are (iii)_______ and alone, not even respected establishment poets, command excitement.
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Building the first United States transcontinental phone line required fundamental innovations: for example, engineers created an amplifier for the electric signals to prevent them from ______ after a few miles.
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The historian argued that________ are essential to science, claiming that these inherited and untested beliefs often form the conceptual framework necessary for further research.
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The author implies which of the following about natural resources in South China prior to 6,500 years ago?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The author suggests which of the following about Heckert`s research?
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence in the context of the passage as a whole?
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Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the proposed explanation?
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For parents, the pleasure of letting children choose which book to read aloud together is not always ____________: I well remembered my inner groans when my child would constantly pick my least favorite book from the shelf.
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Many legislators who helped Roosevelt shape the New Deal _____ the fact that emerging social problems affected every segment of the population; nonetheless, they often acted with a view to aiding only their own constituents.
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The action in Zadie Smith's novel On Beauty is mediated by an unabashedly _____ narrator who does not hesitate to inform us, as once upon a time the narrators of novels were wont to do, how we behave in general and how society usually works.
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