This passage is from Irving Kristol, Reflections of a Neoconservative, copyright © 1983 by Irving Kristol.
A _______ society, a society whose civilization is shaped by market transactions, is always likely to reflect the appetites and preferences of common men and women. Each may not have much money, but there are so many of them that their tastes are decisive.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
This passage is from Milton Friend, “Why Bother About Wildlife Disease?” from U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1401, 2014.
Some emerging zoonoses cause major economic impacts for _______ because of their presence in food production species such as poultry (H5N1) and swine (Nipah virus). For example, the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus that appeared in Asia during 1997 and reached 51 countries by early 2010 caused billions of dollars in losses for the poultry industries of those countries.
The following passage is from Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, translated from French into English by Henry Reeve and originally published in 1835. Alexis de Tocqueville was a French writer and visitor to the United States.
When I _______ to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
The following passage is from “Sustainability and Renewable Resources” by Steven Hayward, Ph.D., Elizabeth Fowler, and Laura Steadman, copyright © 2000 by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Midland, Michigan.
Renewable resources are subject to a variety of _______, often more powerful than those acting on non- renewables. They are inexhaustible in the sense that they can be continually recycled, but this does not mean they are infinite in amount and does not prevent their degradation.
Which word choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
This passage is from Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, copyright © 1998 by Anne Fadiman.
What I am saying here is very simple. Changing our language to make men and women equal has a _______. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done. High prices are attached to many things that are on the whole worth doing.