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题目： In certain regions of its orbit, Pluto has a distance to the Sun smaller than the radius of Neptune's orbit, but collision with Neptune is impossible, because Pluto also has a highly inclined orbit which carried it as much as eight hundred million miles above the plane of Neptune's orbit in this "possible collision" region.

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题目： Dorn Consulting handles much more sophisticated issues than comparable consulting firms, and they have less percentage of employees with advanced degrees.

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题目： The Atlantic Ocean, the second youngest of Earth's five oceans, originated 130 million years ago when the Americas separated from Africa and, as Earth's plates continue to move, has been expanding ever since.

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题目： Had the United States allowed the California Republic to remain independent after the Bear Flag Revolt rather than annexing it with military force, this "California nation" might have become the wealthiest nation in North America.

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题目： In the history of Major League Baseball, the hitters that have career batting averages that are the highest also have correspondingly high on-base percentages.

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题目： After a dip caused by Congressional bickering, many growth stocks are returning to their previous levels, but some, hampered by a general stagnancy in the economy, is returning with a speed that is less than they would expect.

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题目： Dostoevsky, whose novels plumbed highly philosophical themes, Nietzsche had a background in classical philology that gave him a unique perspective toward the Western Philosophical tradition, and the Danish Christian writer Kierkegaard were considered the founders of Existentialism.

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题目： Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, a shorter and denser work than the Seventh Symphony, and when Czerny asked why it was less popular than the Seventh, he gruffly replied, "Because the Eighth is so much better!"

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题目： In a survey of retailers, what percent had purchased computers for business purposes?(1) 85 percent of the retailers surveyed who owned their own store had purchased computers for business purposes.(2) 40 percent of the retailers surveyed owned their own store.

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题目： Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study traditional Native American poetry in native languages.

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题目： Once they had seen the report from the medical examiner, the investigators did not doubt whether the body recovered from the river was the man who had attempted to escape from the state prison.

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题目： Dante Rossetti and his colleagues, in calling their group the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sought a return to the classical ideals of painting that held sway before Raffaello, to what governed the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli.

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题目： Gen. Joseph Hooker initially seized the advantage at the Battle of Chancellorsville, but despite having an army twice the size of Gen. Lee's confederates, he lost his nerve and settled into a more defensive posture, with the result that his army would suffer a humiliating defeat.

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题目： A newly released study on the tectonic plates forming the Pacific basin indicates that by the time they had shifted even a few miles, a vast percentage of the coastline which is currently home to major world cities, because of global warming, will have already become entirely submerged.

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题目： One of Hannibal's successful battle techniques was charging wild elephants directly at the Roman armies, trampling infantry and inducing disarray in the ranks, but Scipio's successful counterstrategy was to command that his men should part, creating channels that allowed the elephants simply to pass through, with them killing the elephants behind his ranks.