Select the sentence that presents a conventional requirement that is rejected by the author of the passage.

Which of the following, if true of the cave, most weakens the argument?

It can be inferred that the “sediments

Which of the following best describes the issue raised by the question in the highlighted portion of the passage?

It can be inferred that which of the following is true of the “geologic evidence”?

Which of the following elements in the debate over the origin of Varanus is NOT provided in the passage?

It can be inferred from the passage that the geographical distribution of the Komodo dragon is

Which of the following, if discovered to be true, would most tend to suggest that the “correlation” mentioned in the passage held true for the people of the West Branch site?

The final sentence of the passage primarily serves to do which of the following?

The passage implies which of the following about beavers?

The passage provides support for which of the following statements about beaver dams?

According to the passage, which of the following best accounts for the apparent bias in antelope-migration direction?

The author of the passage implies that during the

According to the passage, which of the following is true of an Eurasia-Africa land bridge during ice ages?

The political upheaval caught most people by surprise: despite the ______ warning of some commentators, it had never seemed that imminent.

Even if the story now seems a surprisingly innocuous overture to the author’s later, more fully developed narrations, it ____ some of the key traits of those bleaker tales.

William Perkins, his ______ speaking style notwithstanding, has long been seen as the moderate face of his political party.

Just because, as a photographer, Friedlander (i)____ places that most people consider ugly does not mean that he is out to prove they are beautiful. Instead, his work suggests that the photographer simply cannot ignore so much of the built American landscape but is obligated to (ii)_____ what we pass through day in and day out, regardless of (iii)_____.

In the search for truth, the knowledge gained by scientists consists of approximations with varying degrees of certainty. Such (i)_____ truth can be highly (ii)_____, as the rapid and relatively steady progress of medical knowledge well exemplifies.

History teaches us that science is not _________ enterprise, indeed, it is quite the opposite, a motley assortment of tools designed to safeguard researchers against their own biases.