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题目： The candidate spent a significant time in the South, preaching a strong message of family values, lest he lose the vote in those states.

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题目： Since the beginning of the year, the community medical clinic verified rigorously the potency of each flu vaccine sample, lest any of its patients are vulnerable to the flu.

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题目： Maintaining that, in adhering to a stream-of-consciousness style, Virginia Woolf was forced to sacrifice unity and cohesion, overlooks how she meticulously planned each page so that every sentence conformed to an ultimate conception she had before even writing the first page.

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题目： Is $$\frac{t}{3} >\frac{w}{5}$$?(1) w >t(2) 5t >3w

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题目： Internal combustion engines show an inherent tradeoff between power and fuel efficiency: if a car can race from zero to 60 mph faster, the less fuel efficient its engine is over the time.

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题目： Following the merger of Fastco and Celeriton, the CFO of Fastco has been charged with reporting the earnings of the employees of both companies, and however he may choose to do so, he will have to abide by relevant state tax laws.

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题目： Those who fault the intrusion of amateurs into areas requiring serious scholarship often cite Heinrich Schliemann, who was a wealthy German businessman with an obsession for antiquity and who unwittingly destroyed the very artifacts he had been hoping to unearth, when he deployed fifteen sticks of dynamite in the substratum containing relics of ancient Troy and who yet inspired legions of similarly inexperienced men to enter the field.

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题目： Benford's Law, stating that certain numbers appear more often in measurements than do others, is so counterintuitive that when used as evidence in trials where financial fraud is concerned, the evidence is often considered to be a desperate ploy on the part of the prosecution, even if the numbers strongly point to malfeasance.

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题目： Peter O'Toole was nominated for his first Oscar in 1962, and his eighth in 2006, but he never actually won the award.

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题目： The many extant fossils yet to be attributed to a species suggest that our classification of extinct species is either deficient, with many unclassified species meriting distinct branches on the taxonomic tree, or that our method of identification is lacking, with many fossils indeed attributable to known extinct species.

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题目： Maxwell's theory of Electromagnetism in 1873 was the first "unified field theory," with Electroweak in 1961 only being the other, because no further theory has united the electroweak field with either the Strong (Hadronic) force or Gravity.

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题目： Micheaux contends that the guild system both limited and encouraged experimentation in Renaissance Italy: artisans who would have otherwise had no support were allowed to develop their craft, yet, once under such a system, were discouraged from challenging the existing power dynamics.

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题目： Alfred Wegener, although credited with one of the greatest paradigm shifts in geology, which was that large plates in the earth's crust are responsible for the movement of the continents, had been largely reviled in his day, other geologists going so far as to bar him from attending geology conferences.

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题目： Few stories have captured the popular imagination than that of one-time Olympian and POW survivor, Louis Zamperini, who battled unimaginable odds.

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题目： The impact of a large meteor nearly 65 million years ago can better account for the series of cataclysmic events attending the extinction of the dinosaurs than can the concomitant changes in the Earth's climate alone, based on the fact that the meteorite can best explain the sudden appearance of high concentrations of the element iridium, which is found in meteors and, in and of itself, in no way related to changes in the terrestrial climate.