You don't have to answer all of the questions but the most correct ones will get best answer. I have actually finished this packet but need something to check some questions from.
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7.) critics ____ the ______ in developing the new weather satellite to unexpected problems in manufacturing and testing its components.
a.) credit...timeliness
b.) impute...success
c.) attribute... delay
d.) assign...importance
e.) deny... threat
8. as former supreme court justice warren burger was fond of pointing out, many lawyers are not legal hotshots; they often come to court _____ and _______ professional skills.
a.) ill-prepared...lacking
b.) hot tempered...criticizing
c.)reluctant... demonstrating
d.) argumentative...manifesting
e.) conservative..excelling
9. a hypothesis must not only account for what we already know, but it must also be ____ by continued observation.
a.) refuted
b.) interrupted
c.) verified
d.) discredited
e.) outmoded
10. elizabeth Haskell: A Habitat Of Stories is a considerable _____ superseding winifred Goering's learned biography of the english novelist
a.) failure
b.) rationalization
c.) accomplishment
d.) recollection
e.) muddle
11. Butchering was a good and interesting composer whose reputation was not sufficiently _____ the decline into which it fell after his death.
a.) contributed to
b.) benefited from
c.) recovered from
d.) conflicted with
e.) derived form
12. having billed himself as "Mr.Clean," Hosokawa could not _____ the _______ of a major financial scandal.
a.) survive....acclaim
b.) withstand... notoriety
c.) identify...exposure
d.) resist... charms
e.) censure... temptation
13.) a curious ___ of florence's history is that this great center of Italian____ should time and again have been home to acts of appalling savagery and inhumanity.
a.) example...conflict
b.) paradox... civilization
c.) result...brutality
d.) convention...culture
e.) distinction...quality
14. While some southern writers see the past as a heavy burden, otherss see it as a subject for ________ reflection.
a.) gloomy
b.) wearisome
c.) interminable
d.) nostalgia
e.) bleak
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