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