1. The musical comedy Oklahoma did much to expand the potential of the musical stage, and it encouraged others to attempt ………………….
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2. Despite its fish-like form, the whale is…………………………and will drown if submerged too long.
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3.The saguaro, found in desert regions in the southwestern United States, ………………cactus in the world
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4. It is said that United Stales literature ………………….individuality and identity in the twentieth century, after long imitation of European models.
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5. Lucy Stone, ……………………….first feminists in the United States, helped organize the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869
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6.…………………………including climate, mineral content, and the permanency of surface water, wetlands may be mossy,grassy, scrubby, or wooded.
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7. Duke Ellington’s orchestra, ………………his own often complex compositions, made many innovations in jazz.
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8. The term “ice age” refers to any of several periods of time when glaciers covered considerably more of Earth’s surface …………………….
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9. From colonial times, United States property owners agreed to tax themselves on the theory …………………… directly from services that the government could provide
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10. Helium is not flammable and, next to hydrogen, is ……………………….
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11. Wild eagles that survive to adulthood are believed ……………………………from 20 to 30 years.
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12. Portland, ……………………., is located primarily on two hilly peninsulas overlooking Casco Bay and its many islands.
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13. …………………….. widely used in the chemical industry, sodium carbonate is principally consumed by the glass industry.
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14. Cells, first identified by the early microscopists, began to be considered ………………in the nineteenth century
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15. Like Jupiter, Saturn is a large, gaseous planet composed ………………………… of hydrogen and helium
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16. Bacterial cultures are used commercially in the preparation of food products such that yogurt,sour cream,and vinegar.
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17. Anyone with absolute, or perfect, pitch are able to identify by ear any note at some standard pitch or to sing a specified note at will.
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18. Sea horses usually live along the shore among seaweed and other plants to which they cling to by their tails.
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19. Babies have soft spots between the bones of their skulls, which allowing for further growth.
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20. T.S.Elot, who a poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, was a leader of the Modemist movement in poetry.
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21.The Pacific Ocean comprisesalmost theentireboundary western of North and South America.
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22.Established in 1948, the State University of New York is the singlylargest university system in the United States.
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23.Photography disseminates information about humanity and nature, records the visible world, and extension human knowledge into areas the eye cannot penetrate.
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24.Because of their rapidly changing economically fortunes, many frontier towns of the American West underwent spectacular fluctuations in population in the nineteenth century.
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25.Virtually no disease exists today for which there is no drug that can be given, neither to cure the disease or to alleviate its symptoms.
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26.Calcium is essential for blood clotting, for the action of certain enzymes, and for the normal contraction and relax of muscles.
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27.The large collection of the Williams College Museum of Art includes ancient and medieval art, but much exhibits are modern or contemporary.
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28.The technique of spectroscopy allows analyst of incoming light after it has been separated into its component wavelengths by passage through a prism.
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29. Today, fifty years after its construction, the Alaska Highway conveys 40,000 vehicles in normal year.
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30.Since prehistoric times, artists have been arranged colors on surfaces in waysthat express their ideas about people,the world,and religion.
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31. Few substances look less alike than coal and diamonds, yet both are fashionedfrom same elemental carbon.
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32.Meteorologists can program their computes to scan for a specific set of weather criteria, such as falling barometric pressure, increase cloud cover, and rising humidity.
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33.Obsidian is formedwhen siliceous lava cools too rapidly to crystallized into rock-forming minerals.
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34.European settlers in North America moved from the Atlantic coast across 3,000 miles forests, grasslands, deserts, and mountains until they reached the Pacific Ocean.
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35.Philosophy tries to discover the nature of true and knowledge and to find what is of basic value and importance in life.
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36.In this world of high technology, it is easy to forget that the most important tools ever developed for learning is still the book.
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37.The element potassium makes upless than one half percentage of the human body.
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38.Twenty thousand years ago a sheet of ice a thousand meters thick covered the coastal region which the cities of Vancouver and Juneau now are located.
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39.The Crow, Blackfoot, and Sioux tribes traditionally adorned they dwellings and costumes with colorful and highly valued beaded decorations.
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40. In the late 1800’s, United States painter Thomas Eakins develop a broad, powerful Realist style that became almost expressionistic in his later years.