Educators are increasingly recognizing the importance of incorporating technology into the classroom. Properly integrated, digital tools can ______ learning, facilitating collaboration and fostering digital literacy among students.

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The text is adapted from The Architecture of Life by Phoebe Sterling. The characters Victor and Emily discuss the intricacies of biology.

VICTOR: The DNA could well be the blueprint of existence, Emily. Our understanding is fundamentally elementary.

EMILY: Because it's complicated?

VICTOR: Not just complicated. It's more about our inability to decode the grandeur that biology possesses. Human knowledge seems to be dwarfed in front of such detailed design.

As used in the text, what does the word “decode” most nearly mean?

In 2022, a revolutionary battery technology was unveiled, boasting the capability to store twice the energy of current models. This breakthrough could serve as persuasive evidence for critics who had once firmly believed that battery technology had reached its peak, compelling them to ______ their previous stances.

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Psychologist Lila Nguyen and her team discovered that cognitive dissonance—the discomfort experienced when holding contradictory beliefs—can be alleviated through mindfulness meditation. However, the effectiveness of this strategy varies significantly among individuals and is largely ______ their level of skepticism towards meditation practices, indicating that practitioners with a pre-existing belief in the efficacy of meditation benefit more.

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Documentary filmmaker Vanessa Ford is widely celebrated for her penetrating exploration of pressing social issues. Her most recent film, The Cost of Silence, employs a blend of personal narratives and carefully sourced data to ______ the often overlooked impact of inequality in the American education system.

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