Although we no longer have to rely on salt to keep food from spoiling. our appetite for it is_____ most people eat much more salt than they need.

Mechanization of agriculture made it easy for farmers to simply plow more land and___soil loss in existing fields. soil loss was slow enough that farmers saw the problem as someone else's concern.

The notion of "island-centered" history, which mirrored the trend that historians elsewhere were calling "history from below," turned out to be an idea more enthusiastically (i)_______ than (ii)_______Some explanations are not hard to discover. Islander peoples have left few written sources, and these have often been in languages that Western historians did not (iii)_______.

The writer, who (i)_______ commercial literary success, nevertheless (and to her detriment) (i)_______ the intelligibility expected by most readers.

Recent scholarship has questioned the (i)_______of tropical forests around the world. Archaeologists have shown,for example, that the largest contiguous tract of what was thought to be virgin rain forest in the southern Amazon had been transformed into a cultural parkland before European contact, and many of the forest islands in West Africa's savanna-forest transition zone are(ii)_______as well.

Insects are often (i)_______ as the world's most versatile and (ii)_______ flying machines. Yet they shouldn't even be able to get off the ground, at least not according to a straightforward interpretation of the laws of aerodynamics. ​

​Desperate to___ his reputation for mendacity, the candidate made assiduous efforts to convince the public of his integrity.

The subject of the lecture was not ___ the interests of the physicians who constituted the audience, and their attention perceptibly waned as the lecture progressed.

The twentieth-century Chinese painter Fu Baoshi was an impassioned advocate of ink and-brush painting, a form that was often dismissed by his contemporaries as_______ a relic of the old imperialist elite.

Despite the rather_____conditions required for its preservation, the evidence for glaciation during the late Proterozoic is found on every continent, suggesting that ice sheets were present throughout the globe.

Joshua Gisemba Bagaka found that the pedagogical results of group projects and other engaged learning activities in Kenyan mathematics classroom were _____; such activities, then, may not be the best way of improving mathematics education.

Her _________ should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.

Instead of demonstrating the _____ of archaeological applications of electronic remote sensing, the pioneering study became, to some skeptics, an illustration of the imprudence of interpreting sites based on virtual archaeology.

The author’s best-selling book on Virginia Woolf is not (i)_____ treatment of her subject; on the contrary, it presents (ii)_____ portrait of the novelist, faults and all.

The notion of film producers as the ogres of the movie business has proved an (i)_____ one, but according to The Producers by Tim Adler, it is not always grounded in reality. Attacking what he calls the “auteur myth”—the idea of the director as the single purveyor of art in an industry otherwise peopled with (ii)_____—he places at the heart of his book an image of the producer, not the director, as the primary (iii)_____ force in the development and production of a movie.

Appreciating that mathematical notation presents a major roadblock to many students, some well-meaning educators (i)_____ them by (ii)_____ the use of notation; but this is an unfortunate detour, since practice with notation (iii)_____ the important skill of reasoning.

Excessive focus on what might have been can cause in us feelings of restlessness and regret, but some scientists are beginning to think that fancying an alternative reality might have _____ effects as well.

Barker’s account of how mores have evolved over time is illuminating. It reveals as (i)_____ and (ii)_____ some values that have often been regarded as (iii)_____, while uncovering other values that do indeed seem to be universal.

AI only BII only CIII only DI and III EII and III

For decades, economic ideas have been (i)_____ political purpose. Economists, for example, have peddled their theories as a way of gaining public prominence or political appointment, while politicians have (ii)_____ economic doctrines as possible solutions to the nation’s social problems.

Pioneering medical research scientists’ (i)_____ claims regarding the (ii)_____ new researches make the public wonder their own doctors are not dispensing miracles. There are forces, both external and internal, on scientists that most require them to (iii)_____. Without money, there is no science. Researchers must constantly convince administrators who control tax dollars, investors, and individual donors that the work they are doing will make a difference.

Consolidating memory is not instantaneous or even _____: every memory must be encoded and moved from short-term to long-term storage, and some of these memories are, for whatever reason, more vividly imprinted than others.

The (i)_____ nature of the candidate’s comments is calculated. As a long-standing target of critics who regard him as radical, he understands that he needs to be as (ii)_____ as possible if he is to overcome those critiques and appear as a (iii)_____ leader.

Convinced of the gravity of her poetry, Voigt must have found the reviews of her most recent collection (i)_____ reading: one amused reviewer thought that it was unrecognizable as poetry but decidedly (ii)_____.

Apparent flaws in the sculptor’s work have not _____ its respectful reception by most modern critics.

Not only is the advent of bookless or largely bookless libraries too large and powerful a change to be _____, it also offers too many real advantages for it to be considered a tragedy.

Scientific papers often (i)_____ what actually happened in the course of the investigations they describe. Misunderstandings , blind alleys, and mistakes of various sorts will fail to appear in the final written accounts because (ii)_____ is a desirable attribute when transmitting results in a scientific report and would be poorly served by (iii)_____.

Memory-prompt technology such as online birthday reminders does more than enhance our recall abilities; it induces us to (i)_____ ever more behaviors to automated processes. Witness the (ii)_____ a program that allows us to create computer greeting cards for the entire year in one sitting.

If n is any prime number greater than 2, which of the following CANNOT be a prime number

Contrary to those who fear the impact of invasive species on native plants, the biologists contend that the threat posed to biodiversity by nonnative species is often (i)_____. For instance, a study of garlic mustard, a nonnative plant now thriving in Minnesota’s oak forests, found that garlic mustard abundance in forest plots was not (ii)_____ the number of other plant species there.