This book’s strengths are the author’s breadth of knowledge and the blending of ideas and findings from many disciplines, including history, the arts and the sciences. Ideas from diverse perspectives are (i) ______ to provide a historical and cross-cultural understanding. But a weakness of the book is its (ii) ______: sometimes there are leaps from one domain to another that (iii) ______ the reader’s ability to synthesize a coherent view of our current understanding of this subject.
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(A) hyperbolized (B) interwoven (C) reversed
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(D) organization (E) intensity
(F) uniformity
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(G) exaggerate (H) oversimplify (I) undercut