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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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Coagulation factors are useful proteins whose simple names—many are known only by Roman numerals—_____ their importance and the specificity of their roles in the thinning and clotting of blood.
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The primary purpose of the passage is 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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The passage is concerned primarily with
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The argument is open up to criticism on the grounds that it
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In the passage, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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Among geophysicists there was considerably less (i)_________ the proposed environment measure than the (ii)_______ media accounts of the conference would suggest: the debate was often animated but never uncivil.
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If aging is merely an avoidable by-product of life rather than a necessary progression, it is possible that we might eventually forestall ________.
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French's tone was reasonable, ________ almost, but the gaze she fixed on Backhouse over her reading spectacles had something of defiance in it.
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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There is a revelation on almost every page of this book, and the author's prose is _____ in the best possible way: blunt, sweet, off-kilter, and often quite funny.
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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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Since the deficit predicament is fundamentally a long-term problem, the legislature's _____ short-term approaches has actually compounded the difficulty in each succeeding year, eroding the state credit rating in the process.
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The new drug was useful, but unfortunately its effect was largely (i)_____ rather than (ii)_____.
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In an ironic twist, the recent _____ of the reductive observational methods that have enabled science to progress for four centuries may turn out to be science's biggest step forward.
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The baseball players performance during last night's game was impressive, although not _____; others have performed similar feats.
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