多选题In a grievous example of ______ behavior, the consultants repeatedly managed to dupe the team of scientists by presenting fabricated data.
多选题Historian Carlo Botta often contradicted himself, as when he first championed and then ______ the ideals of the French Revolution.
多选题The dancer"s performing style was ______ and ______, with each move taken from another artist, and poorly executed at that.
多选题Dana"s colleagues complained that she was both ______ and ______: she spoke condescendingly and talked about herself too much.
多选题Ken took his ______ obligations seriously, patiently caring for his mother throughout her long recuperation.
多选题Although aging brings about profound physiological changes, it does not often alter individual"s ______: an irascible thirty year old will probably still be ______ at seventy.
多选题Unsuccessful in her first campaigns, Barbara Jordan ______, eventually becoming the first Black woman elected to the Texas State Senate.
多选题Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and
so ______ Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared
after nearly two decades in ______ in the Western Hemisphere.
A. decimated
B. terrorized
C. corrupted
D. abeyance
E. secret
F. quarantine
多选题Canadian Lynn Johnston was named Cartoonist of the Year in 1985, the first woman to be so ______.
多选题Just as glass windows offer buildings both light and insulation, certain atmospheric gases ______ incoming sunlight and ______ heat radiated from the ground, preventing warmth from escaping.
多选题Tchaikovsky"s
Nutcracker
leaves a(n) ______ impression on audiences: children especially remember the dazzling costumes and stirring music.
多选题The library"s collection is a ______ of Asian American historical documents, including rare materials about race relations.
多选题 Questions 8-10 are based on the following
passage. Given the persistent and intransigent
nature of the American race system, which proved quite
impervious to black attacks,Line Du Bois in his speeches and writings
moved (5) from one proposed solution to another, and
the salience of various parts of his philoso- phy
changed as his perceptions of the needs and strategies of black
America shifted over time. Aloof and autonomous in his
personal- (10) ity, Du Bois did not hesitate to
depart markedly from whatever was the current
mainstream of black thinking when he per- ceived that the
conventional wisdom being enunciated by black spokesmen was
proving (15) inadequate to the task of advancing the
race. His willingness to seek different solutions
often placed him well in advance of his con-
temporaries, and this, combined with a strong-willed, even
arrogant personality (20) made his career as a black leader
essentially a series of stormy conflicts.
Thus Du Bois first achieved his role as a major black
leader in the controversy that arose over the program of Booker
T. (25) Washington, the most prominent and influ-
ential black leader at the opening of the twentieth
century. Amidst the wave of lynchings, disfranchisement, and
segregation laws, Washington, seeking the good will
of (30) powerful whites, taught blacks not to protest
against discrimination, but to elevate them- selves
through industrial education, hard work, and property
accumulation; then, they would ultimately obtain recognition of
their (35) citizenship rights. At first Du Bois
agreed with this gradualist strategy, but in 1903
with the publication of his most influential book, Souls
of Black Folk, he became the chief leader of the onslaught
against (40) Washington that polarized the black com-
munity into two wings—the "conservative" supporters of
Washington and his "radical" critics.
多选题The scientist was ______ in her evaluation of her own research, choosing to analyze and report on seemingly ______ results as well as those that were more expected.
多选题As advocates of free speech confront those who would regulate entertainment strictly, the debate over shocking content in movies will likely ______.
多选题Since Fisher's time, it has been realized that genes can sometimes
influence the chromosome or gamete in which they find themselves so that the
gamete will be more likely to participate in fertilization. If such a gene
occurs on a sex-determining (X or Y) chromosome, then highly aberrant sex ratios
can occur. But more immediately relevant to game theory are the sex ratios in
certain parasitic wasp species that have a large excess of females. In these
species, fertilized eggs develop into females and unfertilized eggs into males.
A female stores sperm and can determine the sex of each egg she lays by
fertilizing it or leaving it unfertilized. By Fisher's argument, it should still
pay a female to produce equal numbers of sons and daughters. Hamilton, noting
that the eggs develop within their host—the larva of another insect—and that the
newly emerged adult wasps mate immediately and disperse, offered a remarkably
cogent analysis. Since only one female usually lays eggs in a given larva, it
would pay her to produce one male only, because this one male could fertilize
all his sisters on emergence. {{U}}Like Fisher, Hamilton looked
for an evolutionarily stable strategy, but he went a step further in recognizing
that he was looking for a strategy.{{/U}} The author suggests
that the work of Fisher and Hamilton was similar in that both scientists
A. conducted their research at approximately the same time.
B. sought to manipulate the sex ratios of some of the animals they
studied.
C. sought an explanation of why certain sex ratios exist and remain
stable.
D. studied game theory, thereby providing important groundwork for the later
development of strategy theory.
E. studied reproduction in the same animal species.
多选题In 2007, Mother Jones published an article on "the ethanol effect," showing the negative ramifications of switching from foreign oil to corn-based ethanol. It pointed out that over just five years, the amount of corn used for ethanol had risen from 7 percent to 20 percent. That led to a rise in the price of corn, which in turn led to a rise in food prices. Since so much corn was used to manufacture ethanol, less was exported. This meant less corn on the global market and the potential of an increase in global hunger. Ironically, the production of corn requires a great deal of gasoline for tractors and harvesters, reducing the energy savings to below that of gasoline.
多选题The ______ that met the novella upon publication was so ______ its modest achievement that even the author wondered whether the response was truly deserved.
多选题Not wishing to incur the disapproval of her teachers, who were generally ______, Helen was ______ attempting radical new artistic styles in her paintings.
多选题The study"s warning that monkey populations were declining in Guatemala and Mexico was ______ by new evidence that nearby populations along the Belize River were prospering.
