多选题The professor commented to other faculty members that Sheila seemed temperamentally suited to the study of logic, given her ______ for ______ intricate arguments.

多选题Some fans feel that sports events are ______ only when the competitors are of equal ability, making the outcome of the game ______.

多选题The colors and patterns on butterflies" wings may seem merely ______, but they are actually ______ the survival of these insects, enabling them to attract mates and to hide from predators.

多选题Edmund White is a(n) ______ author: he has written novels, essays, short stories, a travel book, and a biography.

多选题Students already confused by difficult college-admission procedures will be further ______ by the university"s complex new online process.

多选题Foucault's rejection of the concept of continuity in Western thought, though radical, was not unique; he had ______ in the United States who, without knowledge of his work, developed parallel ideas. A. critics B. counterparts C. disciples D. readers E. publishers

多选题Her dislike of ______ made her regard people who tried to win her approval through praise as ______.

多选题Films and paintings ______ a similar challenge: to ______ the viewer"s eye that a two-dimensional surface actually has depth.

多选题 Directions: The next questions are based on the content of the following passage. Read the passage and then determine the best answer choice for each question. Base your choice on what this passage states directly or implies, not on any information you may have gained elsewhere. For each of Questions 7-11, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. Questions 7-9 are based on the following passage. James's first novels used conventional nar- rative techniques: explicit characterization, action that related events in distinctly phasedLine sequences, settings firmly outlined and (5) specifically described. But this method grad- ually gave way to a subtler, more deliberate, more diffuse style of accumulation of minutely discriminated details whose total significance the reader can grasp only by (10) constant attention and sensitive inference. His later novels play down scenes of abrupt and prominent action, and do not so much offer a succession of sharp shocks as slow piecemeal additions of perception. The cur- (15) tain is not suddenly drawn back from shrouded things, but is slowly moved away. Such a technique is suited to James's essential subject, which is not human action itself but the states of mind that produce and are pro- (20) duced by human actions and interactions. James was less interested in what characters do, than in the moral and psychological antecedents, realizations, and consequences which attend their doings. This is why he (25) more often speaks of "cases" than of actions. His stories, therefore, grow more and more lengthy while the actions they relate grow simpler and less visible; not because they are crammed with adventitious and secondary (30) events, digressive relief, or supernumerary characters, as overstuffed novels of action are; but because he presents in such exhaus- tive detail every nuance of his situation. Commonly the interest of a novel is in the (35) variety and excitement of visible actions building up to a climactic event which will settle the outward destinies of characters with storybook promise of permanence. A James novel, however, possesses its character- (40) istic interest in carrying the reader through a rich analysis of the mental adjustments of characters to the realities of their personal situations as they are slowly revealed to them through exploration and chance discovery.

多选题Pablo Picasso was ______ youth; his extraordinary artistic talent was obvious at a very early age.

多选题Detractors attacked the study"s ______, claiming that researchers used lax procedures to gather and analyze data.

多选题Difficult working conditions that ranged from merely ______ to extremely intimidating were the norm for jazz performer Billie Holiday.

多选题A mysterious phenomenon is the ability of over-water migrants to travel on course. Birds, bees, and other species can keep track of time without any sensory cues from the outside world, and such "biological clocks" clearly contribute to their "compass sense". For example, they can use the position of the Sun or stars, along with the time of day, to find north. But compass sense alone cannot explain how birds navigate the ocean: after a flock traveling east is blown far south by a storm, it will assume the proper northeasterly course to compensate. Perhaps, some scientists thought, migrants determine their {{U}}geographic position on Earth by celestial navigation{{/U}}, almost as human navigators use stars and planets, {{U}}but this would demand of the animals a fantastic map sense.{{/U}} Researchers now know that some species have a magnetic sense, which might allow migrants to determine their geographic location by detecting variations in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field. In maintaining that migrating animals would need "a fantastic map sense" to determine their geographic position by celestial navigation, the author intends to express A. admiration for the ability of the migrants. B. skepticism about celestial navigation as an explanation. C. certainty that the phenomenon of migration will remain mysterious. D. interest in a new method of accounting for over-water migration. E. surprise that animals apparently navigate in much the same way that human beings do.

多选题Cells in the parvo system can distinguish between two colors at any relative brightness of the two. Cells in the color-blind magno system, on the other hand, are analogous to a black-and-white photograph in the way they function: they signal. information about the brightness of surfaces but not about their colors. For any pair of colors there is a particular brightness ratio at which two colors, for example red and green, will appear as the same shade of gray in a black-and-white photograph, {{U}}hence any border between them will vanish.{{/U}} Similarly at some relative red-to-green brightness level, the red and green will appear identical to the magno system. The red and green are then called equiluminant. A border between two equiluminant colors has color contrast but no luminance contrast The author mentions a "black-and-white photograph" most probably in order to explain A. how the parvo system distinguishes between different shapes and colors. B. how the magno system uses luminosity to identify borders between objects. C. the mechanism that makes the magno system color-blind. D. why the magno system is capable of perceiving moving images. E. the brightness ratio at which colors become indistinguishable to the parvo system.

多选题The challenge facing public health officials is to ______ an outbreak of disease and then ______ that school-children are immunized.

多选题Scholars often fail to see that music played an important role in the preservation of African culture in the United States. They correctly note that slavery stripped some cultural elements from Black people—their political and economic systems—but they underestimate the significance of music in sustaining other African cultural values. {{U}}African music, unlike the music of some other cultures, was based on a total vision of life in which music was not an isolated social domain.{{/U}} In African culture music was pervasive, serving not only religion, but all phases of life, including birth, death, work, and play. The methods that a community devises to perpetuate itself come into being to preserve aspects of the cultural legacy that community perceives as essential. Music, like art in general, was so inextricably a part of African culture that it became a crucial means of preserving the culture during and after the dislocations of slavery. Which of the following statements concerning the function of African music can be inferred from the passage? A. It preserved cultural values because it was thoroughly integrated into the lives of the people. B. It was more important in the development of African religious life than in other areas of culture. C. It was developed in response to the loss of political and economic systems. D. Its pervasiveness in African culture hindered its effectiveness in minimizing the impact of slavery. E. Its isolation from the economic domains of life enabled it to survive the destructive impact of slavery.

多选题The spotted bowerbird has a ______ for amassing the bright shiny objects it needs for decorating its bower: it will enter houses to ______ cutlery, coins, thimbles, nails, screws, even car keys.

多选题Although strangers compliment the comedian on her work repeatedly, almost ______, she is always moved by such enthusiastic encouragement.

多选题In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ______ than a similar article intended for ______ use. A. coarsely B. creatively C. lavishly D. religious E. commercial F. everyday

多选题Predictably, detail-oriented workers are ______ keeping track of the myriad particulars of a situation.