Women who worked part-time made up 26 percent of all female wage and salary workers in 2011. _______ 13 percent of men in wage and salary jobs worked part-time.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
If we consider that civilization involves the whole process of human achievement, it must admit of a great variety of qualities and degrees of development; ____________ it appears to be a relative term applied to the variation of human life.
In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received 1,691 reports of malaria among persons in the United States, representing a 14% increase from the 1,484 cases reported with onset of symptoms in 2009. ____________, the number of cases reported in 2010 are the largest number of malaria cases that have been reported in the United States since 1980.
The “poem” part of the equation promises greater density and compression than we typically expect from prose, achieved through poetic devices _______ rhythm, imagery, metaphor, simile, and figures of speech.
Somewhat more significant is _______ Peter Martyr spoke of Cuba as an island and said that some sailors pretended to have circumnavigated it.
England in the eighteenth century, which has been especially cited as an example of this sort of government, was essentially an aristocratic state, _______ it comprised some great elements of democracy; for the laws and customs of the country were such that the aristocracy could not but preponderate in the long run and direct public affairs according to its own will.
Researchers studying data from NASA’s Cassini mission have observed that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, behaves much like Venus, Mars, or a comet when exposed to the raw power of the solar wind. The observations suggest that unmagnetized bodies like Titan might interact withthe solar wind in the same basic ways, ____________ their nature or distance from the sun.
He replied, “Males. I was thinking about males. I viewed the world of literature—______, the entire world of artistic creation—as a world of males, and so did most writers.”
A study in the November 1998 Journal of the American Medical Association reports that between 1990 and 1997, patient visits to practitioners of alternative medicine increased about 47 percent. In a survey published in the January 2001 American Demographics, 70 percent of respondents had tried _______ 1 of 8 selected forms of alternative medicine, including acupuncture.
Tides help determine where the waves break—low on the beach at low tide, high on the beach at high tide—and, ____________ where sand is deposited and removed.
The traditionals know that those who follow the lead of the progressives will be assimilated—that is, swept away into a competitive economy for which they have no training. ____________ the Hopi hold their land, those still able to make corn grow in the slow, patient techniques of dry farming will survive even when all help has been taken away, …
Delirium tremens, a disorder long believed to be fatal in all cases _______ subjected to constant and aggressive medical intervention, was observed to subside by itself more readily in patients left untreated, with a substantially improved rate of survival.
What choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
If I’m satisfied with listening to a song once, the song is a failure! Yet, how many times have I heard poets introduce their poems with words like these: “I think I may have read this poem here before. ____________ I hope you’ll bear with me. Hopefully there are others herewho haven’t heard it, …
Oxides of iron, other metals, and ground soft glass are mixed with oil or gum and water ______ apply it, and then the glass is placed into a kiln and “fired” until the enamel is fused on and, if well fired, becomes part of the glass itself, …
Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them ___________ they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, and give them a country that is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider.