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I also think its D as rest options are not suited.
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The answer is C and the source is magoosh. Can anyone please correct it?
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Here, astrophysicists have to extrapolate another map of that kind and they are happy cause ordinary galaxy is easily can be mapped.. so they are heartened?

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The blank should be a positive word, since the Milky Way is really ordinary and provides a convenient comparison to other galaxies for scientists. Therefore, "heartened by" fits.
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Surprise is tempting if you ignore the second half. But if you take that into consideration, heartened is a better fit.
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Astrophysicists are (i) _________ the fact that the Milky Way is a totally unremarkable galaxy, since this very ordinariness affords them a template with which to make viable extrapolations concerning the structure and dynamics of many other galaxies—both known and unknown.

Astrophysicists feel or relate in some way to the fact that the Milky Way is a totally unremarkable galaxy. And what is the reason for this? They do so since it gives them a template with which to make viable extrapolations concerning the structure and dynamics of many other galaxies - both known and unknown.

So they should be feeling good about the ordinariness of the Milky Way galaxy.

The word choice is - heartened by
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I think it should be C.
The passage states that the Galaxy is unremarkable and that it is this very feature of ordinariness that allows the astrophysics to do their job.
It only makes sense that astrophysicist would be happy about that fact
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TrevorKleeTutor wrote:
Yeah, let me answer this one.

"Astrophysicists are (i) _________ the fact that the Milky Way is a totally unremarkable galaxy, since this very ordinariness affords them a template with which to make viable extrapolations concerning the structure and dynamics of many other galaxies—both known and unknown."

So they're actually pretty happy about the fact that it's unremarkable. This unremarkability means that they can figure out other galaxies, an opportunity they are now "afforded" to do (they couldn't before).

They're happy. Or, as one might say, it makes their hearts happy (they're heartened).

Surprised doesn't work here, as "since" means because. If they were surprised, we'd want something like "since they expected it to actually be remarkable."


What evidence do we have from the sentence that suggests that they are happy?
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TrevorKleeTutor wrote:
Yeah, let me answer this one.

"Astrophysicists are (i) _________ the fact that the Milky Way is a totally unremarkable galaxy, since this very ordinariness affords them a template with which to make viable extrapolations concerning the structure and dynamics of many other galaxies—both known and unknown."

So they're actually pretty happy about the fact that it's unremarkable. This unremarkability means that they can figure out other galaxies, an opportunity they are now "afforded" to do (they couldn't before).

They're happy. Or, as one might say, it makes their hearts happy (they're heartened).

Surprised doesn't work here, as "since" means because. If they were surprised, we'd want something like "since they expected it to actually be remarkable."


What evidence do we have from the sentence that suggests that they are happy?


Actually nowhere in the sentence
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infopro wrote:
TrevorKleeTutor wrote:
Yeah, let me answer this one.

"Astrophysicists are (i) _________ the fact that the Milky Way is a totally unremarkable galaxy, since this very ordinariness affords them a template with which to make viable extrapolations concerning the structure and dynamics of many other galaxies—both known and unknown."

So they're actually pretty happy about the fact that it's unremarkable. This unremarkability means that they can figure out other galaxies, an opportunity they are now "afforded" to do (they couldn't before).

They're happy. Or, as one might say, it makes their hearts happy (they're heartened).

Surprised doesn't work here, as "since" means because. If they were surprised, we'd want something like "since they expected it to actually be remarkable."


What evidence do we have from the sentence that suggests that they are happy?


Actually nowhere in the sentence


The "ordinariness [of the Milky Way galaxy] AFFORDS them a template with which to make viable extrapolations". This should explain why the astrophysicists would be happy about an unremarkable/ordinary galaxy.

If the Milky Way was the only galaxy in the entire universe that behaved how it did, you would not be able to extrapolate how the milky way behaves onto others galaxies. But because the Milky Way is ordinary you can make extrapolations/predictions based on it.
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