1. A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give away abruptly to the desire on
the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower.
2. The isotopic composition of leadoften varies from one source of common copper ore to
another, with variations exceeding the measurement error; and preliminary studies indicate virtually uniform isotopic composition of the lead from a single copper-ore source. 3. An impact (on Mars) capable of ejecting fragment of the Martian surface into an
Earth-intersecting orbit is even less probable than such an event on the Moon, in view of the Moon’s smaller size and closer proximity to Earth.
4. It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work,
previously seen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880’s created a new class of “dead-end” jobs, thenceforth considered “women’s work.”
5. Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth-century Progressive historians such
as Beard and Becker, these recent historians have put forward arguments that deserve evaluation.
6. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which
of the following statements regarding socioeconomic class and support for the rebel and Loyalist causes during the American Revolutionary War?
7. She wished to discard the traditional methods and established vocabularies of such dance
forms as ballet and to explore the internal sources of human expressiveness.
8. With regard to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly
restoring laboring people to the stage of eighteen-century English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism in general: for example, laboring people in eighteen-century England readily shifted from home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries.
9. The correlation of carbon dioxide with temperature, of course, does not establish whether
changes in atmospheric composition caused the warming and cooling trends or were caused by their.
10. The idea of an autonomous discipline called “philosophy”, a distinct from and sitting in
judgement on such pursuits as theology and science turns out, on close examination, to be of quite recent origin.
11. Human genes contain too little information even to specify which hemisphere of the brain
each of a human’s 1011 neurons should occupy, let alone the hundreds of connections that each neuron makes.
12. Recently some scientists have concluded that meteorites found on Earth and long believed to
have a Martian origin might actually have been blasted free of Mars’s gravity by the impact on Mars of other meteorites.
13. And Waizer advocates as the means of eliminating this tyranny and of restoring genuine
equality “the abolition of the power of money outside its sphere.”
14. Yet Waizer’s argument, however deficient, does point to one of the most serious weaknesses
of capitalism- namely, that it brings to predominant positions in a society people who, no matter how legitimately they have earned their material rewards, often lack those other
qualities that evoke affection or admiration.
15. It has thus generally been by way of the emphasis on oral literary creativity that these
Chicano writers, whose English language works are sometimes uninspired, developed the powerful and arresting language that characterized their Spanish language works.
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