Having an intense and long-standing culture of (i)_____, the company understandably has a reputation as the supreme corporate (ii)_____. But even by these standard, the degree of secrecy surrounding the company’s most recent research is (iii)_____.

According to the passage, the “shifting-baseline syndrome” is a result of which of the following?

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

According to the passage, Sinodonty and Sundadonty differ from one another in that Sinodonty

The passage implies that Turner’s conclusion regarding the origins of most Native American populations is based in part on which of the following findings?

In the argument given, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?

In the context in which it appears, “appreciation of” most nearly means

​According to the passage, critics approach Jane Austen’s work in biographical or historical ways for which of the following reasons?

Which of the following can be inferred regarding the case of Baker v. Carr?

The author of the passage uses the analogy of the archaeology most probably in order to

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

23.Which of the following statements about Nevelson’s sculptures can be inferred from the passage?

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.

Viewing people as 'social atoms' that obey rather simple rule (which are not unlike the laws of physics), one may discover certain (i)_____. Take, for example, the way channels emerge when people move in crowds. In the midst of initially (ii)_____ movements, one person begins to follow another—in an effort to avoid collisions—and streams of movement emerge. As more people join in, there is greater pull on others to join the flow, and the particular channels become (iii)_____.

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)_____.

Governments are often willing to pay the direct costs of preparing for emergencies that may never happen: they make room in their budgets to prepare for _____ but unlikely events.


Let S be the set of all positive integers n such that n2 is a multiple of both 24 and 108.

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.

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.

Scholarly works on detective stories often begin with (i)_____, suggesting that there is something vaguely wrong with adults who spend their time reading such fiction and certainly something (ii)_____ those who devote energy to its analysis.

The apparent simplicity of savanna or a prairie landscape is illusory, but the illusion takes real effort to _____ because much of what actually occurs in these places takes place underground.

One of the fundamental problems with learning mathematics is that the number sense may be (i)_____, exact calculation requires cultural tools—symbols and algorithms—that relatively new and must therefore be absorbed by areas of the brain designed for other purpose, which is easier when what we are learning (ii)_____ our built-in circuitry with an understanding of it we can at least (iii)_____ our teaching methods by reflecting on the constraints it imposes.