多选题Although the bystander"s account of the car accident at first seemed ______, the police officer was surprised, on further investigation, to find that it was ______, defended by the alibi of an important witness
多选题Though Judd is typically ______ and reserved in social gatherings, at last night"s reception he spoke and acted with uncharacteristic ______.
多选题Rose smiled approving but gave neither written nor spoken permission to proceed with the project: her consent, in short, was ______.
多选题As health care and nutrition continue to improve, Americans on average are enjoying increased ______, living to a more advanced age than ever before.
多选题The passengers experienced an intimacy not uncommon among vacationers spending days together, an intimacy more often due to ______ than to any community of taste.
多选题Rosario ______ on the problem at length, but no amount of extended reflection could provide her with a satisfactory solution.
多选题The architect advised tearing down the old structure, since he did not consider it sufficiently ______ to ______ the heavy winds of the tropical storm the peninsula was expecting.
多选题The ______ questions that consistently structure the study of history
must be distinguished from merely ______ questions, which have their day and
then pass into oblivion.
A. instinctive
B. philosophical
C. perennial
D. discriminating
E. random
F. ephemeral
多选题Emily Dickinson"s poems can be disquieting, and some people found that, in person, Dickinson was just as ______.
多选题Unlike her predecessor"s rambling prose, Susan Hubel"s reports were both ______ and comprehensive.
多选题Opponents of the research institute label it ______ anachronism: its scholars, they allege, have ______ rivaling those of pre-Revolutionary French nobility.
多选题It is not wise to attempt to ______ aggressive groups: the more concessions you make, the more they will demand.
多选题While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers—the
incomprehension of her colleagues—octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock
has lived to ______ the triumph of her once ______ scientific theories.
A. decry
B. regret
C. savor
D. heterodox
E. authoritative
F. tentative
多选题My brother is a loner who showers his few friends with affection; thus he is both ______ and ______.
多选题Metis, the innermost ______ of Jupiter, completes a full revolution around this giant planet every seven hours.
多选题In 1918 Yellowstone National Park had only 25 bison, but the population has since ______ to more than 2,000.
多选题Readers who delight in rarefied words cannot help but be ______ by the esoteric ______ Annie Dillard expertly wields in her novel
The Maytrees.
多选题 Questions 1-6 (Sentence Equivalent)
Directions: For each of the following sentences, select the two answers of the
six choices given that, when substituted in the sentence, both logically
complete the sentence as a whole and create sentences that are equivalent to one
another in meaning.
多选题In frigid regions a layer of permafrost under the soil surface prevents water from sinking deep into the soil, and so the water ______ the land, helping to create bog and ______ conditions.
多选题The magician"s ______ astonished us; her deft performance proved the old saying that the hand is quicker than the eye.