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Looking back on a project that they had approached with both great________ and considerable aspirations, they were amused to recognize that neither the fears nor the hopes had been at all realistic.
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Which of the following can be inferred about blues music from the passage?
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The passage suggests which of the following about "diligent scribes"?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Monumental changes taking place in the structures of world business match some equally ____________ changes taking place in the relations of international companies to the governments with which they deal.
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The greatest_____________ true international free trade is public opinion: radical opposition to economic globalization at a grassroots level continues to grab headlines.
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Scientists are a generally _____________lot, but few can match in the depths of her perverse and unmerited obscurity the twentieth*century mathematical genius Amalie Noether.
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Millville has its share of suburban eyesores-cement-block strip malls, rows of fast-food restaurants，and_____________ split-level homes marching up hillsides denuded of trees.
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Since it is an incredible challenge to detect dark matter directly, scientists have_____________ its existence from its gravitational effects on shaping galaxies and other large-scale structures.
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The Chippewa regarded their treaties with the federal government as solemn covenants and therefore, throughout the twentieth century, met efforts by governmental officials to_____________those treaties with both open and hidden resistance.
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Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the "recent studies"?
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The concept of replicability begins with the idea that the pursuit of scientific truth is not _____________: researchers who make daims must allow others to test those claims.
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The Holy People in Navajo sacred narratives do not act as moral _____________: when they teach, it is as often by what they do wrong as by what they do right.
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Because popular culture often portrays lawyers as shady and scientists as eccentric, we might expect cinematic depictions of scientists employed as expert witnesses in court cases to reflect badly on both law and science. Yet science and scientists rarely (i)_____________ in movies involving trials. When a scientist is negatively portrayed, it is often because the legal process is represented as having (ii)_____________ science; when a scientist is positively portrayed, it is often because science is represented as superior to law, as (iii)_____________ law's rhetorical and institutional instabilities.
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The scientific study of laughter faces a frustrating paradox: ideal experiments take place in rigidly controlled environments with all but the most salient variables eliminated, but such sterile settings are often ____________ laughter.
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The methods for composting organic waste aim to (i) _____________nature's tendency toward decay- a process unfortunately often (ii)_____________ in landfills, where organic materials are packed so tightly that they have little access to the oxygen necessary for decomposition.
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Theses defended by contemporary philosophers under the banner of metaphysics typically_____________ the claims of science, that is, they cannot be borne out by experiment as the claims of science are expected to be.
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According to the passage, the equilibrium view of rangelands is defined in terms of the relationship between
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