Over the centuries, ____ that try to explain the origins of the university.
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The planet Venus is almost exactly the same size and mass _____ Earth, with a similar interior, including a nickel-iron core.
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George Washington Carver ____ international fame for revolutionizing agriculture research in the southern United States during the early twentieth century.
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Constituting one of the earliest engineering techniques, ______ in Paleolithic time was done in order to extend natural caves.
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The tulip tree is native to the eastern United States, _____ the tallest and largest broad leaf tree.
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Elementary schools in the United states provide formal education ______ arithmetic, science, social science, and communication skills that including reading, writing, spelling, and speaking.
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______ land and money enabled construction of the Union Pacific railroad to begin fromCouncil Bluffs, Iowa, in 1865.
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Appointments to the United States Supreme Court and all lower federal courts ____ by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
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The name “squirrel” is commonly used for those forms of the family Sciuridae that live in trees, _____ it is equally accurate for ground dwelling types.
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Green plants combine _____ with water and carbon dioxide to make food.
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From the archeologist’s perspective, understanding the past is vitally important and requires ______ of earlier cultures.
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The Texas Legislature selected Vassar Miller _____ in 1982, and again in 1988.
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13. The distinguishing feature of a fluid, in contrast to a solid, is the ease _____ .
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14. Oxygen and nutrients reach the body’s tissues ____ from the blood through the capillary wall.
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15. _____ important development of the Neolithic age was not in the manufacture of stone tools but in the production of food.
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By 1899 Ransom olds had establish in Detroit, Michigan, the first factory in the United States for the manufacture of automobiles.
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The progressive Movement is an umbrella tern refer to a number of reform efforts that emerged in the early 1900’s.
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The pelican is a water bird with a large pouch attached to its bill, which it uses as a scoop for catch small fish.
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The invention of reinforced concrete, plate glass, and steel in the mid-1800’s was enabled architects to design and build extremely tall constructions, or “skyscrapers.”
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Acoustics, the study of sounds, is one of the oldest of the physically sciences.
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21.Each of functionsof the body, even thinking, requires the expenditureof energy.
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22.Gourds were introduced to what is now the southwestern United States by earliest peoples who migrated north from Mesoamerica about 7000 years ago.
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The economic heart of Canada, Ontario accounts for more than 40 percentage of the nation’s productive capacity.
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24. Virtually all parts moving of an automobile need to be lubricated because, without lubrication, friction would increase power consumption and damage the parts
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Rarely has a technological development had as great an impact on society as the rapid grow of electronics.
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The North American Review, a magazine was first published in 1815, was one of the leading literary journals of the past woe centuries.
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Fuel is any substance or material that reacts chemically with another substance or material to produce hot.
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Glint was a favored material of prehistoric humans, which used it to make tools and weapons, because it would chip into shapes with sharp edges.
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29. Mutiny of a ship’s crew against the captain signifies the breakdown of the obedience and discipline required to deal effectively to perils at eat
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Of all the art-related reference and research library in North America, that of the Metropolitan Museum of a Art in New York City is among the largest and most complete.
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31. Acclimatization is the process by which an organism adjusts to living in an environment to which it normally unsuited
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Glaciers, mass of ice that flow outward from ice caps, cover about one-tenth of earth’s land area.
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Some species of bacteria and fungi thrive on such simply compounds as alcohol.
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In 1923 Alice Paul began campaign to promote the adoption of an amendment to the United States Constitution mandating equal rights for women.
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Perhaps more than any other United States city, San Francisco is a collection of neighborhood.
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Almost every the hereditary material of an individual organism resides in the chromosomes.
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37. Only with early seventeenth-century observers did the music of the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada entered recorded history
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38. Perhaps the most distinctive features of sharks and undoubtedly one of the most important reasons for their success is their well-developed sensory system
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The major economic activities of Cheyenne, Wyoming, include transportation, chemicals, tourism, but governmental activities.
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40. Question
The fiction writer, poetry, and critic Edgar Allan Poe is among the most familiar of American writers and one of the most enigmatic.