多选题Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater ______ their
efforts to build a progressive party than the ______ of the progressives already
elected to the legislature.
A. benefit from
B. obstacle to
C. praise for
D. success
E. reputation
F. resistance
多选题Artists who are described as ______ are the first to experiment with new forms or concepts.
多选题Eager to appear sophisticated and learned, Vincent cultivated a persona that was both ______ and ______.
多选题The reviewer characterized Madonna Swan-Abdalla"s autobiography as a portrait of an ______ person, one who prevailed against great odds.
多选题Nicknamed the "contact lens" the device installed on the Hubble telescope successfully ______ its flawed vision, the result of a faulty mirror.
多选题Although it stayed in business for several months, the company was actually ______ and met its financial obligations only by engaging in ______ activities.
多选题The café attracts a ______ clientele: a startlingly heterogeneous group of people collects there.
多选题When they purchased the hilltop property, they were blissfully ______ of the fact that it stood directly in the flight path of the local airport.
多选题More concerned with contributing to science than with earning public acclaim, nineteenth-century astronomer Caroline Herschel ______ the ______ she received for her achievements.
多选题Anishinabe activist Winona LaDuke has worked to ______ many parcels of tribal land that, over decades, have been lost through sales or foreclosures.
多选题Mrs. Rodriguez was under the impression that discipline would ______ her wayward student"s academic progress rather than advance it.
多选题While the manager clearly sought to ______ the optimism of the marketing team, she stopped short of pronouncing their plan unfeasible.
多选题Joe publicly advocates ______ and self-control but, oddly enough, seems to admire most those people who achieve great things through ______.
多选题Menacing clouds and a sudden drop in temperature signaled the onset of ______ weather.
多选题The Classical Age of Greece, 500 B.C. to 323 B.C., was characterized by contradictions: it was a mix of superstition and ______, of ______ concepts and centuries-old traditions.
多选题Toni Cade Bambara"s novels are engrossing because the protagonists, in striving to achieve goals, are not simply ______ characters.
多选题Orangutans are ______ apes: they typically conduct most of their lives up in the trees of tropical rain forests.
多选题The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and
drive us to ______ accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of
news.
A. insular
B. investigative
C. synoptic
D. subjective
E. sensational
F. compendious
多选题Fred often used ______ to achieve his professional goals, even though such artful subterfuge alienated his colleagues.
多选题Oceanographers have identified more than 50 "dead zones" around the world: areas of sea that various forms of pollution have rendered ______ life.