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But no matter what it’s called, this common snack has a rather uncommon taste and is often grouped by travelers with other ______ Asian foods such as chicken feet or snake soup.
(A) provokes (B) exotic (C) delicacy (D) dates back (E) refreshed (F) implies (G) appetizing (H) mixture (I) goes by (J) unchanged (K) challenge (L) favor
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Getting beyond the egg’s appearance is the first ______.
(A) provokes (B) exotic (C) delicacy (D) dates back (E) refreshed (F) implies (G) appetizing (H) mixture (I) goes by (J) unchanged (K) challenge (L) favor
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Instead of being white with a bright orange yolk, the jellylike egg takes on a less ______ dark brown and swampy green hue.
(A) provokes (B) exotic (C) delicacy (D) dates back (E) refreshed (F) implies (G) appetizing (H) mixture (I) goes by (J) unchanged (K) challenge (L) favor
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While the century egg draws a following from older generations and curious travelers, it is falling out of ______ with the younger set, who are weary of China’s preserved and fermented foods.
(A) provokes (B) exotic (C) delicacy (D) dates back (E) refreshed (F) implies (G) appetizing (H) mixture (I) goes by (J) unchanged (K) challenge (L) favor
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One of the most difficult things for a human to face is the loss of a limb. If a person loses an arm or a leg, he/she must be fitted with an artificial limb. The situation is very different for a starfish. If a starfish loses an arm, it can grow a new one. ______ Snails can even regrow their heads-imagine what the world would be like if humans could do that.
(A) Scientists call this unidirectional regeneration. (B) Humans aren’t completely without regenerative talents. (C) The same thing happens for lobsters, salamanders, and many other animals. (D) When it comes to regeneration, few animals can equal the magic of the planarian. (E) This type of regeneration is demonstrated in a few animals, such as hydras and sea stars. (F) They hope that this line of research will make regeneration possible in humans someday.
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Many different kinds of animals show some form of regeneration. Most of them are, however, limited to the sort a lizard is capable of, like regrowing a lost tail. A cockroach can grow back a missing limb, but the limb itself can’t generate a new cockroach. ______ Bidirectional regeneration, on the other hand, refers to a situation in which splitting of an animal will result in separate fully functional animals.
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Bidirectional regeneration, on the other hand, refers to a situation in which splitting of an animal will result in separate fully functional animals. ______ Cut a hydra in half, and you’ll get two hydras. Cut it into four pieces, and you’ll get four.
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Cut a hydra in half, and you’ll get two hydras. Cut it into four pieces, and you’ll get four. ______ A single one can be cut into hundreds of pieces and each will grow back into a whole in a week or so. Because of this remarkable ability, one planarian can be created over and over, giving it a sort of immortality.
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Often named as the most prominent contemporary female architect, Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born British woman, is significant for her intellectual toughness and her refusal to compromise on her artistic ideas. For many years, her designs filled the pages of architecture journals but were dismissed as impractical or too radical. Also, being female in a male-dominated field didn’t help her succeed. Despite these setbacks, her star began to rise when her design for Cincinnati’s new Center for Contemporary Art was selected and built, earning her worldwide acclaim. The New York Times described the building as “the most important new building in America since the Cold War.” Once her talent was recognized, commissions started coming in to design a variety of projects, including public transportation, libraries, and opera houses. In 2004, Hadid became the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize. She also won the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Hadid’s interest in architecture had roots in a trip her family took to the ancient Sumer region in southern Iraq, the site of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, when she was a teenager. She recalled: “The beauty of the landscape-where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together-has never left me. I’m trying to discover-invent, I suppose-an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way.” Nature’s forms appear as a recurrent source of inspiration for Hadid’s architecture. Her designs are daring and visionary experiments with space and with the relationships of buildings to their urban surroundings. She consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that expresses her ideals.
36. According to the passage, what is a major factor in Hadid’s success?
(A) Her family support.
(B) Her ethnic origin.
(C) Her gender and education.
(D) Her vision and talent.
