多选题Because her new job required daily attendance, Joan was obliged to ______ her formerly ______ lifestyle as a traveling musician.

多选题Castillo"s poetry has generated only enthusiastic response: praise from the general public and ______ from the major critics.

多选题The company manager was known for both his ______ and his ______: he lied frequently, but did so with amazing flair.

多选题Representing a round world on a flat surface is impossible without some ______: the Mercator projection may shows Greenland as over ten times larger than Mexico, a country in fact only slightly smaller than Greenland.

多选题The Joint Chiefs of Staff were not officially assembled until after World War II, but they ______ from an earlier attempt by Theodore Roosevelt to create a board that would work and plan jointly across the armed forces.

多选题Rodolfo Gonzales was once described as ______ in body and mind because of the flexibility and grace apparent in both his boxing and his writing of poetry and plays.

多选题Colonial South Carolina was characterized by cultural ______: Europeans, Africans and Native Americans each absorbed some customs of the other groups.

多选题The musical Scrambled Feir ______ the ______ of the theatrical world, poking fun at actors, directors, play wrights, and audiences alike.

多选题Remelting old metal cans rather than making primary aluminum from bauxite ore shipped from overseas saves producers millions of dollars in ______ and production costs. A. distribution B. salvage C. storage D. procurement E. research

多选题 Questions 18-20 are based on the following passage. At night, schools of prey and predators are almost always spectacularly illuminated by the bioluminescence produced by the micro- Line scopic and larger plankton. The reason for (5) the ubiquitous production of light by the microorganisms of the sea remains obscure, and suggested explanations are controversial. It has been suggested that light is a kind of inadvertent by-product of life in transparent (10) organisms. It has also been hypothesized that the emission of light on disturbance is advantageous to the plankton in making the predators of the plankton conspicuous to their predators! Unquestionably, it does act (15) this way. Indeed, some fisheries base the detection of their prey on the biolumines- cence that the fish excite. It is difficult, how- ever, to defend the thesis that this effect was the direct factor in the original development (20) of bioluminescence, since the effect was of no advantage to the individual microorgan- ism that first developed it. Perhaps the lumi- nescence of a microorganism also discourages attack by light-avoiding predators and is of (25) initial survival benefit to the individual. As it then becomes general in the population, the effect of revealing plankton predators to their predators would also become important.

多选题While traveling near the Sun, the comet Hale-Bopp produced a ______ amount of dust, much more than the comets Halley or Hyakutake.

多选题Although Victor Turner's writings have proved fruitful for fields beyond anthropology, his definition of ritual is overly restrictive. Ritual, he says, is "prescribed formal behavior for occasions not given over to technological routine, having reference to beliefs in mystical beings or powers." "Technological routine" refers to the means by which a social group provides for its material needs. Turner's differentiating ritual from technology helps us recognize that festivals and celebrations {{U}}may have little purpose other than play, but it obscures the practical aims,{{/U}} such as making crops grow or healing patients, of other rituals. Further, Turner's definition implies a necessary relationship between ritual and mystical beliefs. However, not all rituals are religious; some religions have no reference to mystical beings; and individuals may be required only to participate in, not necessarily believe in, a ritual. Turner's assumption that ritual behavior follows belief thus limits the usefulness of his definition in studying ritual across cultures. According to the passage, which of the following does Turner exclude from his conception of ritual? A. Behavior based on beliefs. B. Behavior based on formal rules. C. Celebrations whose purpose is play. D. Routines directed toward practical ends. E. Festivals honoring supernatural beings.

多选题The professor argued that every grassroots movement needs ______: without this public declaration of motives, there can be no cohesive organization.

多选题The professor"s presentation was both ______ and ______: though brief, it was instructive.

多选题Citing the ______ of the Asian American community, the scholar argued that Asian Americans constituted the region"s fastest-growing minority population.

多选题The ability to cram computer circuitry onto silicon chips faces fundamental limitations: it is possible to make the innards of a circuit so ______ that they no longer ______.

多选题National character is not formally considered by social scientists in discussing economic and social development today. They believe that people differ and that these differences should be taken into account somehow, but they have as yet discovered no way to include such variables in their formal models of economic and social development. The difficulty ties in the nature of the data that supposedly define different national characters. Anthropologists and others are on much firmer ground when they attempt to describe the cultural norms for a small homogeneous tribe or village than when they undertake the formidable task of discovering the {{U}}norms that exist in a complex modem nation-state composed of many disparate groups{{/U}}. The situation is further complicated by the nature of judgments about character, since such judgments are overly dependent on impressions and since, furthermore, impressions are usually stated in qualitative terms, it is impossible to make a reliable comparison between the national characters of two countries. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true of modem nation-states? A. They are complex. B. They are heterogeneous. C. They are of interest to social scientists. D. They lack cultural norms. E. They differ from one another in terms of national character.

多选题Because Russell was such a memorable and ______ public speaker, many people mistook his ability to talk about a wide range of topics for genuine ______.

多选题The ______ has proved to be ______: as a result, negotiations have been suspended indefinitely.

多选题Cynics believe that people who ______ compliments do so in order to be praised twice. A. bask in B. give out C. despair of D. gloat over E. shrug off