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Since methane doesn’ t last long in the atmosphere, its detection on Mars would indicate __________ source-perhaps a living organism, or an active geological process-and shed valuable light on whether the planet is habitable.

Prior to the advent of the scientific method, many were skeptical of experimentation as a means for seeking knowledge. it was widely thought that (i)__________ could only produce (ii)__________ findings.

Schmidt’ s widely praised book Lives of the Poets (1998) was a 900-page meditation on English poetry in which his forceful, witty, sometimes partisan sketches revealed a mind deeply in love with literature. in his recent The First Poets, however, Schmidt seems less (i)__________ his opinions. He is excessively (ii)__________ authorities, even when gently rejecting their views, Whenever he is front and center, Schmidt himself is (iii)__________ guide, but this book is clogged with too many pedestrian quotations from academics past and present.

Despite the __________ behaviors they can exhibit, invertebrates are sometimes regarded by humans as a mindless and unfeeling band of alien critters.

When philosophers like Plato, Hume, and Schopenhauer write with clarity about problems of the utmost difficulty, such __________ does not make the problems appear simple or easy to solve: on the contrary, difficulty is exposed as essential to the understanding.

Train stations are visually evocative, full of shadows and movement and space: it is hardly(i)__________ that they are so (ii)__________ filmmakers. But the range of films that exploit stations, trains, and the prospect or memory of rail travel is quite (iii)__________. No other form of travel has lent itself to international cinema in quite this way.

The indigenous uprising in Bolivia in 2008 was not __________: in 1781 indigenous people took over the area near present-day La Paz in what constituted the biggest challenge to the Spanish who then controlled Bolivia.

The pronghorn antelope in northern Mexico may be viewed as (i)__________ species, as most of the North American prairie, its chief historical habitat has (ii)__________.

According to one prominent sociologist, the insider doctrine—the claim that only a member of a particular group should study that group —is inherently __________ in that the doctrine assumes that, to put it colloquially, “you have to be one to understand one.”

The First World War (i)__________ the achievements of two decades of disease eradication efforts and, terrifyingly, led to the (ii)__________ of malaria throughout ltaly.

The research institute publishes new material on its Web site well in advance of its appearance in print; inevitably, there is a lot of dross, but fortunately, much of the material is both __________ and free.

The rural Renaissance villas were working buildings. The agricultural world they served is now gone. To see it you therefore have to (i)__________ it, but that can be aided by the nineteenth-century photographs taken just before the agricultural revolution destroyed the old order, Not that those photographs themselves are always completely(ii)__________: Virginia creeper growing up a Renaissance villa is a botanical anachronism and also (iii)__________ piece of planting (rats climb up the creepers and get at the grain stored in the attic).

it’ s hard to miss a musk ox: the animal looks like a buffalo decked out in a hairy fur coat. And yet,(i)__________ as it is, this giant, which lives on tundras from Siberia to Greenland, is still surprisingly(ii)__________.

Failure to investigate (i)__________ a proposed new feature is desired by potential consumers of a product can lead to expensive mistakes: money is invested to incorporate the feature, whose value in the marketplace then turns out to be (ii)__________. Yet equally, relying on what consumers say can lead to potentially profitable innovations being (iii)__________. Consumers do not necessarily at once recognize how a new feature will expand the potential of an apparently familiar product.

The mechanism for anticlockwise rotation of Borneo remains __________ ，and many geologists continue to be skeptical because it is difficult to satisfactorily incorporate into regional tectonics.

The most famous point of the supposedly iconoclastic speech made by the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson was actually quite (i)__________. For at least a quarter century before Emerson, American intellectuals had issued ritual warnings about listening too much to the muses of Europe and insisted that the American day of intellectual dependence was drawing to a close. What is remarkable is that in his speech Emerson (ii)__________, considering that he was himself so (iii)__________ European thought and literature.

The contribution of a proliferation of new courses intended to broaden the knowledge and experiences of university students will be __________

Primates are, for the most part, very __________: walk through a tropical forest, and it is highly likely that if you encounter any mammals, it will be a primate that you see or hear.

Finally, here is a biography of the musical theater colossus Stephen Sondheim that is informative and perceptive rather than a plodding and-then-he-wrote chronology or a fan’s outpouring of unvarnished __________.

Surprisingly, although the textbooks are filled with pages of vocabulary and unnecessary detail, their treatment of some fundamentally important concepts is __________.

In the documentary, the themes of sublime nature and multiculturalism are meshed together in a manner that __________ a challenging treatment: the juxtaposition of these issues leaves several questions unaddressed.

The importance of the notion of surface in nanoscience and nanotechnology cannot be __________: in nanomaterials, in fact, surface phenomena rather than mass properties govern the chemical and biological behavior of objects.

It has long been thought that smell might have __________ relation with memory, and recent research does indeed confirm that recollections tied to smell can be

At public appearances the leader was remarkably taciturn, typically making __________ observations before turning the floor over to a colleague.

Drug companies rarely pursue new pharmacotherapies for rare diseases because of the high failure rates and the cost of research, which make the companies’ chances of recovering their investments __________.

Many in the software industry cling to an obstinate belief that the industry can weather any economic storm, but their __________ has been visibly shaken by a looming recession and aggressive consolidation in the high-tech industry.

For decades, debates about the potential benefits of seafloor mining in ocean deeps were __________, because mining at depths greater than 1,000 meters was considered technologically impossible.

In his self-portraits Rembrandt is notably __________ the details of his own physiognomy, with the color of his eyes, the shape of his nose never seeming to be the same from one picture to the next.

The author contests the idea that indigenous legal traditions in Canada are __________, showing how these various traditions have historically shaped, and been shaped by, both Canadian state law and one another.

lranian astronomy during the Sassanian period (226-651 C.E.) was __________, blending concepts and methods derived from lran’s indigenous traditions with those of her neighbors, especially India and the Hellenistic world.

Egyptologists’ recent classification of a cavity found in the Great Pyramid as __________ seems premature: the inside of the Great Pyramid is filled with stones of irregular sizes, so small gaps appear unavoidable.

Although the choreographer has been known to push the boundaries of experimentalism, she says she is not particularly interested in __________ for its own sake.

Observing responses to environmental threats, he contrasts planet fetishizers, who imagine a suddenly __________ humanity restoring Earth to its pristine state, with planet managers, who believe in the effectiveness of technological control.

By its subtitle, Pamela Lu’s Pamela: A Novel assigns itself to a literary genre whose constitutive elements it __________: if it is a novel, it is an anomalous one, with no story to unfold.

Glass, by definition, is __________ in its structure; its atoms lack order and are arranged every which way.

Computer software is hardly __________: different software embeds different philosophies, different views of the world, and these philosophies can shape our thinking in subtle but real ways.

She was __________ debater, always choosing to press an argument to its logical

Nineteenth-century England presents something of (i)__________, at least to those who believe that (ii)__________ best promotes business ethics. The defining characteristic of English company law at that time was its extreme degree of permissiveness: laissez-faire ruled in Parliament, caveat emptor in the courts, creating the ideal breeding ground for fraud and dishonesty. Yet these were the years when London became the financial center of the world and established its status as a (iii)__________ place to do business.

Although most economists believe European growth will pick up this year, the numbers do not point that way __________; in Germany, for instance, manufacturing orders are rising but industrial production is slowing.

It is __________ among psychotherapists that an intimate human relationship is good for a person: none other than Freud himself once famously said that health requires success in love as well as in work. Martin, however, is not quite as (ii)__________: it seems that for some people, according to Martin, love and intimacy might not just be (iii)__________, but downright toxic.