If such hunters first competed with the larger predators and then replaced them, they may have allowed more young to survive each year, gradually increasing the populations of favored species.( k3 M# B6 K) I3 E3 ]
The word "favored" is closest in meaning to which of following?% T2 c1 B9 P: n6 b- j! S
(A) large
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(C) preferred
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5 E+ U# o$ c# M# ~9 S They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as well.
2 j2 l5 g) X- J3 a$ b! o( ^The word "integral" is closest in meaning to which of following?
# W. r2 K9 N6 L$ l' ^) Q(A) interesting
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(C) ornamental
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They flourished in Pennsyvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham's "Great and Stately Palace," its garden full of tulips.
+ @: w! e8 A3 o7 F* w6 xThe word "flourished" is closest in meaning to which of following?/ m8 H6 c: @9 _; h
(A) were discovered
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(C) combined
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Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter of the following year grumbled that they were all dead.0 o0 b7 \2 ]# R* s/ e- L1 W
The word "grumbled" is closest in meaning to which of following?
# P/ X! _+ X6 b9 k" Z& Z(A) denied$ O5 y1 m% a( ^. K! g
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(C) complained
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No two comets ever look identical, but they have basic features in common, one of the most obvious of which is a coma.: a+ T) S: T1 _0 A3 Y% c
The word "identical" is closest in meaning to which of following?
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(B) exactly alike
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(D) invisible
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