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Recent research has shown a (i)_____________ scientific thinking during preadolescence: while some studies demonstrate (ii) _____________ the areas of experimentation, data interpretation, and understanding the nature of science, others, focusing on somewhat simplified tasks, have demonstrated competencies in elementary school or even younger children.
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Groundwater responds slowly to droughts and floods and, as a result, is much more _____________ to such climate variability than are water supplies drawn from rivers or ponds.
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Most movie sound tracks lean so heavily on a few preprocessed musical devices-those swells of strings and cymbals designed to manipulate our emotions in (i) _____________ ways-that when a composer (ii) _____________ a more personal language, the effect is (iii) _____________: an entire dimension of the film experience is liberated from cliché.
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She objected to the language in the report, arguing that it portrayed the central problem as stable and capable of being defined, when it was in fact _____________.
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Although the (i) _____________ of partnerships between universities and private industry are many, university-industry collaboration does raise some tricky questions about (ii) _____________ missions. Publishing research, for example, promotes a central goal for one institution but jeopardizes one for the other.
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Science is inherently (i) _____________. Whether (ii) _____________ a long-standing idea or showing disdain for received political wisdom, the scientific ethic, which demands that the scientist follow the evidence wherever it leads, is a threat to (iii) _____________ of all kinds.
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In person, Downing is generally rather _____________, seemingly incapable of smiling, let alone laughing.
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The development of fracture mechanics marked a crucial advance in our understanding of crack growth in glasses and ceramics; before the advent of this discipline, many of the details of the crack growth process were _____________ those who studied ceramics.
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Having characterized her opponents as extreme and one-sided, the pundit conspicuously failed to (i) _____________ the middle ground to which she laid claim; how speedily the pretense of moderation is (ii) _____________ !
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With its many islands, the Pacific Ocean had from early times been the habitat of _____________ civilizations-ones that had mastered the skills of sea travel.
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Throughout human history, religion and other areas of culture have always been (i) _____________. Secularized cultural domains have often (ii) _____________ religious symbols for expressing values, while religion has often drawn its symbols from (iii) _____________, whether social, political, or economic.
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Any dissent within the company is necessarily _____________ because of the overwhelming preponderance of the company president's supporters, who quickly quash all opposition to her policies.
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Most of human language is (i) _____________, with meaning (ii) _____________ context and interpretation. But the meaning of mathematical statements (iii)_____________ culture and history: if a thousand people read an equation, they read the same equation.
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The environmentalist asserted that although the trend in building regulations was theoretically geared toward energy efficiency, in terms of energy consumption, new buildings typically were becoming more _____________ every year.
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.In denying him a promotion,management cited his _____________ decision making, charging that his judgments were based on vagaries rather than careful forethought.
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The reader does well to approach claims in this autobiography with a certain amount of friendly skepticism, but the overall impression it conveys is that veracity wins out over _____________.
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By and large, the writing of professional philosophers over the last century gets high marks for lucidity, though one can certainly point to a few whose prose is notably _____________.
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Some people might object to pairing art and physics, since art is considered to be relatively _____________ and physics, until recently, scrupulously avoided any mention of the inner thoughts that related to the outer worid.
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Although all of the major characters in Mendez' play are historical figures who have been lampooned in many previous works, she (i) _____________ this tradition in her avoidance of (ii) _____________.
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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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