1 |
In other words more than ______ years have been added to the expected length of man's life |
Fifteen
Twenty
Thirty
Forty
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2 |
Today a person can expect to live to be almost ______ years old |
Fifty
Sixty
Sixty five
Seventy
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3 |
Very likely, before you were six years old, you would have had ______ |
Small pox
Chicken pox
Red pox
Yellow pox
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4 |
In those days about _______ out of eight babies died before reaching their first birthday |
Five
Seven
Six
Eight
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5 |
If you had been born ______ hundred years ago, you would have had about chance in eight |
Four
Three
Two
One
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6 |
We are also more critical in our thinking than our ______ |
Children
Families
Offspring
Ancestors
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7 |
Today we are better able to explain happenings which are ________ |
Mysterious
Flagrant
Realistic
Open
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8 |
The scientific method has helped us in the production and ______ of foods |
Destruction
Preservation
Protection
Penetration
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9 |
All of us have ______ greatly from the use of scientific method |
Benefits
Benefitting
Benefitted
Benefit
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10 |
Our first feeling is something like ______ |
Fear
Dare
Satisfaction
Pleasure
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11 |
The _______ race came into existence in some such way as this |
Animal
Human
Humane
Homo
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12 |
Life grew more and more ______ |
Complexion
Complacent
Complex
Complicated
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13 |
But from these ______ beginnings came a stream of life |
Great
Immense
Big
Humble
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14 |
Their living power ______ chiefly in their being able to reproduce themselves |
Consisted
Consist
Consisting
Constitute
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15 |
Life started in simple ______ |
Orgasm
Organisms
Organization
Organs
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16 |
Their warmth is coming almost entirely from the ______ which the sum pours down on them |
Eradication
Rotation
Radiation
Reflection
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17 |
The sun and the stars are all extremely hot, for too hot for life to ______ on them |
Assist
Exit
Elexir
Exist
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18 |
They are the ______ of which our earth is one |
Planets
Plants
Stars
Comets
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19 |
This mountain was ______ to pieces |
Tear
Torn
Tore
Tears
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20 |
An immense tidal wave must have travelled over the ______ of the sun |
Bottom
Top
Surface
Crust
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