Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Click on the letter (A), (B), (C), or D in the answer space provided.

 

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United States aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart set ------- long-distance flight records.

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The ------- east of the Mississippi River is made up of the Lumbee people.

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In their designs the Shakers always sought ------- to a problem, whether it was a rocking chair or a steam engine.



 
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Mason bees are solitary bees, which means ------- in colonies like honeybees or bumblebees.

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Psychologists who study information processing have found ------- to identify and describe several memory structures and control processes.

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Wood, a diverse, variable material, ------- the source of about 90 percent of the plant fiber used globally to make paper.

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Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun was ------- to be produced on Broadway.

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Portland, -------, is located primarily on two hilly peninsulas overlooking Casco Bay and its many islands.


 
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The ability of forests to hold water depends not nearly so much on the trees and their root systems ---------- on the mosses they shelter.



 
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Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay was the principal reception center ------- the United States from 1892 to 1943.

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The Rio Grande is too shallow for commercial navigation ------- is used to irrigate land in both the United States and Mexico.

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Researchers often investigate why a disease develops in only one of many -------.

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At the center of a well-developed hurricane -------, a relatively calm area rising from the surface of the sea.



 
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Although legend has it that the Pilgrims first set foot in America on Plymouth Rock in 1620, ------- documentary evidence confirming this.



 
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The 1903 film The Great Train Robbery was the first significant film in which the classic western story’s formula of crime and retribution -------.



 
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