Chapter 1, Level 2 Self-Quiz: BII

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You can take the long hike up, or take the tram to the top. Alternately, you could drive up the road, though that wouldn't be as scenic as a hike or as fast as the tram.

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Doves are found in a variety of environments and climates. They prefer habitats where wooded areas meet with open areas, such as suburban areas and roadsides. They can survive well alongside human populations, often roosting on telephone poles and other man-made structures.

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An unattended house would inevitably fall apart, because water would eventually seep into the roof at the flashings, eroding the wood and rusting the nails. This would in turn cause the walls to sag and eventually collapse altogether.

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Vocoders transform speech into electronically transmissible information. They were originally developed to encode speech for secure radio transmission, but they came to be used extensively in pop music.

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Stop being the person you have invented. Just be yourself.

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Using recorders hidden in handbags, the researchers took note of what female clubbers were wearing and how many times they were approached by men asking them to dance. For the purposes of the study, each arm accounted for 10% of the body, each leg for 15% and the torso for 50%. Women who revealed around 40% of their skin attracted twice as many men as those who covered up. However, those who exposed any more than this also fared worse.   "Women Should Bare 40% of Their Bodies to Attract Men," The Telegraph

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Bill must have taken the coin. We searched everyone at the party except Bill, and no one had the coin.

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I can see the ink level inside the pen through the transparent tube. But when I use it, no ink comes out. So there must be something broken in the pen.

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If there was any significant amount of bleach in the water, I'd feel it on my fingertips. And this washcloth would lose some color. Thus we can safely say there is no bleach in here.

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What will I have? Let's see, the raspberry brandy sounds good. I think I’ll have that.

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He already has a lead of 20 minutes, and there are only three legs of the race left to complete. It's all downhill and it'll be next to impossible to narrow the gap by much more than 5 or so minutes. So unless something freakish happens, he's sure to win the race.

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My new hairbrush is made of plastic. It cost one dollar at the thrift store on Lexington Avenue.

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In 1923, the first Kressel's Olde-Time Bakery opened in San Mateo, California. The bakery was decorated with elaborate Byzantine-style mosaics, in tribute to the founders' Greek heritage and love of history. Soon locals associated the vaulting Romanesque architecture with delicious, healthy baked goods. This commitment to excellence has become a Kressel's tradition, kept alive to the present day.

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There's no point in going swimming until the rain and lightning and thunder stop.

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You don't stand a chance against my avatar. I have the Pendant of Power, the best weapon in the game.

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I read that most accidents occur in the kitchen. Therefore, I have decided to give up cooking.

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My brother suffers from insomnia. His doctor said that the best way to cure it is to get a lot of sleep.

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Though computers can perform remarkably complex operations, and respond to unforeseen environmental changes and inputs, we remain stubbornly reluctant to attribute any sort of agency to them. Often, when you ask someone why a computer couldn't think, some variation on computers lacking free will is invoked. But since it is not clear that we have free will either, that is not a good refutation of the possibility of artificial intelligence.

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Dementors are just knock-offs of Tolkien's Ringwraiths. They are both hooded, shadowy creatures of evil and darkness. They both generate intense, unreasoning fear when they draw near. They both have the ability to drain a person’s mind and render them soulless.

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Several thousand kanji are in regular use, while the two syllabaries each contain forty-eight basic characters. Almost all Japanese sentences contain both kanji and hiragana, while some additionally use katakana. Because of this mixture of scripts, in addition to a large inventory of kanji characters, the Japanese writing system is often considered to be the most complicated in use anywhere in the world.

Adapted from "Japanese Writing System," Wikipedia

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Knowledge is held to be successful cognition, the result of reflective processes characterized by careful thinking and explicit defense of claims via reasoned argument. For something to count as a reason, a thinker must also have reason to believe it is true. This implies that knowledge must be based in infinite series of justification.

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Our study found that 75% of senior citizens rely on public transportation. So we should make sure that free and easy access to public transportation is available for all senior citizens.

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