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Wills argues that certain malarial parasites are especially (i)__________ because they have more recently entered humans than other species and therefore have had (ii)__________ time to evolve toward (iii)__________. Yet there is no reliable evidence that the most harmful Plasmodium species has been in humans for a shorter time than less harmful species.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
| A. populous | D. ample | G. virulence |
| B. malignant | E. insufficient | H. benignity |
| C. threatened | F. adequate | I. variability |
Practice Test Questions
Question: 20
Page: 327
Most of the contextual clues come from the last sentence, in which we're told that "there is no reliable evidence that the most harmful Plasmodium species has been in humans for a shorter time than less harmful species."
To paraphrase: We can't be certain about the theory that some HARMFUL species has been in humans for LESS TIME than LESS harmful species.
This tells us that the first sentence must suggest that the LONGER a species has been in humans, the LESS harmful that species becomes.
To paraphrase the first sentence, we have: Wills argues that certain malarial parasites are especially (i)__________ because they'e been in humans for LESS TIME than other species. This REDUCED TIME means the parasites had (ii)__________ time to evolve toward (iii)__________.
If those parasites have had LESS TIME in humans, then those parasites will be more HARMFUL than other parasites. Predict HARMFUL for the first blank.
The reduced time in humans, means the parasites has NOT ENOUGH time to evolve into LESS HARMFUL parasites.
Predict NOT ENOUGH for the second blank, and predict LESS HARMFUL for the third blank.
Check the answer choices...
MALIGNANT, INSUFFICIENT and BENIGNITY.
Answer: B, E and H
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Brent
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