1. As is often the case with collections of lectures by _____ authors, the book as a whole is _____, although the individual contributions are outstanding in themselves.
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A conservatism D facts
B creativity E preconceptions
C objectivity F observation
2. The success of science is due in great part to its emphasis on_____: the reliance on evidence rather than _____ and the willingness to draw conclusions even when they conflict with traditional beliefs.
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A precedes D understand
B transcends E contest
C incorporate F repudiate
3. Art _____ science ,but that does not mean that the artist must also be a scientist; an artist uses the fruits of science but need not _____the theories from which they derive.
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A different D disconnected
B incompetent E unexciting
C mediocre F coherent
4. The nature of social history and lyric poetry are _____, social history always recounting the _____ and lyric poetry speaking for unchanging human nature, that timeless essence beyond fashion and economics.
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A antithetical D evanescent
B indistinguishable E unnoticed
C interdependent F unalterable
5. For more than a century, geologists have felt comfortable with the idea that geological process, although very _____, are also _____ and so are capable of shaping the Earth, given enough time.
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A slow D intermittent
B unpredictable E steady
C ponderous F sporadic
6. To avoid annihilation by parasites, some caterpillars are able to _____ periods of active growth by pre-maturely entering a dormant state, which is characterized by the _____of feeding.
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A mediate D continuation
B foster E suspension
C curtail F stimulation
7. The “impostor syndrome” often afflicts those who fear that true self-disclosure will lower them in others esteem; rightly handled, however, _____may actually _____ones standing.
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A inspiration D acknowledging
B channel E mimicking
C impulse F emulating
8. Since 1813 reaction to Jane Austens novels has oscillated between _____ and condescension; but in general later writers have esteemed her works more highly than did most of her literary ______.
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A adoration D contemporaries
B indifference E followers
C dismissal F precursors
9. Once a duckling has identified a parent, the instinctive bond become a powerful _____ for additional learning since, by _____the parent, the duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted.
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A affection D enhance
B candor E efface
C willfulness F jeopardize
10. Although some of her fellow scientists _____ the unorthodox laboratory methodology that others found innovative, unanimous praise greeted her experimental results: at once pioneering and _____.
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A decried D unexceptionable
B complimented E mundane
C welcomed F inconclusive
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