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11. Personal sacrifice without the promise of immediate gain is an anomaly in this era when a sense of is the most powerful predisposition shaping individual actions.
A. fairness
B. humanitarianism
C. causality
D. ambiguity
E. entitlement √
12. New technologies often begin by what has gone before, and they change the world later. Think how long it took power-using companies to recognize that with electricity they did not need to cluster their machinery around the power source, as in the days of steam. Instead, power could be their processes. In that sense,
many of today’s computer networks are still in the steam age. Their full potential remains unrealized.
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mimicking√ incorporated into
13. There has been much hand-wringing about how unprepared American students are for college. Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are unprepared for students. In his analysis, the university culture is largely entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp. Understandably, many students view academic life as ritual.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) primed for an arcane opaque√ to a laudable
essential for a painstaking √
14. Of course anyone who has ever perused an unmodernized text of Captain Clark’s journals knows that the Captain was one of the most spellers ever to write in English, but despite this orthographical rules, Clark is never unclear. Blank (i) Blank (ii) indefatigable disregard for fastidious√ partiality toward
defiant√ unpretentiousness about