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My mother had to work 12 hours a day in a factory just to ______.
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Some people fear racism will never completely disappear from the face of the earth.
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Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.
Mary: "Thanks a lot for your help.”
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Tom: "When are we leaving for the concert?"
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A pioneering set of experiments has been important in the revolution in our understanding of animal behavior - a revolution that eroded the behaviorist dogma that only humans have minds. These experiments were designed to detect consciousness - that is signs of self-awareness or self-recognition - in animals other than humans.
The scientific investigation of experience as private as consciousness is frustratingly beyond the usual tools of the experimental psychologist. This may be one reason that many researchers have shied away from the notion of mind and consciousness in nonhuman animals. In the late 1960s, however, psychologist Gordon Gallup devised a test of the sense of self: the mirror test. If an animal were able to recognize its reflection in a mirror as "self", then it could be said to possess an awareness of self, or consciousness. It is known that a cat or a dog reacts to its own image in a mirror, but often it treats it as that of another individual whose behavior very soon becomes puzzling and boring.
The experiment called for familiarizing the animal with the mirror and then marking the animal's forehead with a red spot. If the animal saw the reflection as just another individual, it might wonder about the curious red spot and might even touch the mirror. But if the animal realized that the reflection was of itself, it would probably touch the spot on its own body. The first time Gallup tried the experiment with a chimpanzee, the animal acted as if it knew that the reflection was its own; it touched the red spot on its forehead. Gallup's report of the experiment, published in a 1970 article, was a milestone in our understanding of animal minds, and psychologists wondered how widespread self-recognition would prove to be.
Which of the following statements best describes the behaviorist's position with regard to consciousness in nonhuman animals?
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The Oxford English Dictionary is well-known for including many different meanings of words and to give real examples.
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There has been an appreciative drop in the number of unemployed people since the new government came to power.
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It was disappointing that almost of the guests left the wedding too early.
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People have been debating the principles of beauty for thousands of years, but it still seems impossible to consider it objectively. German philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned whether something can possess an objective property that makes it beautiful. He concluded that although everyone accepts that beauty exists, no one has ever on the precise criteria by which beauty may be judged.
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote of a scale called the “golden proportion”, to which the width of the face should be two-thirds of its length, preferably accompanied by a nose no longer than the distance between the eyes.
Symmetry has been to be attractive to the human , so a face may seem beautiful because of the similarity between its two sides. Babies spend more time looking at symmetrical faces than asymmetrical ones and symmetry is also rated as more attractive by adults looking at photos. So although there seems to be no universal agreement or even national consensus on what constitutes beauty, there is at least some agreement that facial symmetry is an important .
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The Native Americans of northern Califonia were highly skilled at basketry, using the reeds, grasses, barks, and roots they found around them to fashion articles of alls sorts and sizes - not only trays, containers, and cooking pots, but hats, boats, fish traps, baby carriers, and ceremonial objects.
Of all these experts, none excelled the Pono - a group who lived on or near the coast during the 1800s, and whose descendants continue to live in parts of the same region to this day. They made baskets three feet in diameter and others no bigger than a thimble. The Pomo people were masters of decoration. Some of their baskets were completely covered with shell pendants; others with feathers that made the baskets' surfaces as soft as the breasts of birds. Moreover, the Pomo people made use of more weaving techniques than did their neighbors. Most groups made all their basketwork by twining - the twisting of a flexible horizontal material, called a weft, around stiffer vertical strands of material, the warp. Others depended primarily on coiling - a process in which a continuous coil of stiff material is held in the desired shape by a tight wrapping of flexible strands. Only the Pomo people used both processes with equal case and frequency. In addition, they made use of four distinct variations on the basic twining process, often employing more than one of them in a single article.
Although a wide variety of materials was available, the Pomo people used only a few. The warp was always made of willow, and the most commonly used welt was sedge root, a woody fiber that could easily be separated into strands no thicker than a thread. For color, the Pomo people used the bark of redbud for their twined work and dyed bulrush root for black in coiled work. Though other materials were sometimes used, these four were the staples in their finest basketry.
If the basketry materials used by the Pomo people were limited, the designs were amazingly varied. Every Pomo basketmaker knew how to produce from fifteen to twenty distinct patterns that could be combined in a number of different ways.
The word "fashion" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____.
The word "staples" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.
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I was astonished that he knew a lot about Vietnamese food.
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"If I were you, I would not choose to write about such a sensitive topic", the teacher said.
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Martin missed his flight because he had not been informed of the change in flight schedule.
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The man wanted to get some fresh air in the room. He opened the window.
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The plan may be ingenious. It will never work in practice.
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His career in the illicit drug trade ended with the police raid this morning.
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In American football, the coach may shout to the captain to call time out.