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_______ students tried to sign up for Professor Ling's biology course because she is such an engaging lecturer.
Eighty-seven
_______ percent of those students will be assigned to another professor's class.
Fifty
Asia, the world's largest continent, encompasses more than _____ square kilometers.
44.5 million
The third-largest
No revision is necessary.
The Dead Sea, between Jordan and Israel, is the world's lowest point at _____ meters below sea level.
408
She told us that ______ of the biology text would require extra attention in the coming week.
Chapter 19
A number of people in our class have returned to college after raising their families, so the average age of the students is ______.
thirty-two
Of the 260 aboriginal languages identified in Australia in the twentieth century, less than _____ percent now have enough speakers to guarantee the survival of the languages.
10
These big box outlets are Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menards.
big-box
Edward Arlington Robinson's "Collected Poems" was the first book to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, in 1922. My favorite poems by Robinson are Miniver Cheevy and Mr. Flood's Party.
neither
Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, uses the word telegraphic to describe the style of the Gettysburg Address. In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. often uses the word hope while he explains his principles.
neither
In German, fressen refers to how animals eat; essen to how humans eat. At a family gathering, a German mother might say to her child, "Don't fres." In German, fressen refers to how animals eat; essen to how humans eat. At a family gathering, a German mother might say to her child, "Don't fres."
neither is correct
What is the difference between a bar mitzvah and a confirmation? What is the difference between a bar mitzvah and a confirmation?
neither is correct
Our biology instructor estimated that the ratio of As to Cs on the midterm exam was _____.
10:1
_____ aboriginal languages were identified in Australia in the twentieth century, but many have since become extinct.
Two hundred sixty
The corporate headquarters remains in Georgia in two high rise buildings outside Atlanta
high-rise
The largest of these home improvement retailers is Home Depot
home-improvement
The second largest and oldest of the companies is Lowe's, founded in 1946 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
second-largest
An area that receives less than _____ inches of rain a year is considered a desert.
ten
of the home repair retailers is Menards, founded in 1959 and headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin
home-repair
While Lowe's began as a small-town operation, it adopted the big-box format in the 1980s on account of the competitive pressures from Home Depot
No revision is necessary.
For the many do-it-yourselfers who spend their spare time completing home repairs, remodeling, and landscaping, three major retailers compete to serve their needs
No revision is necessary
