多选题Only after the campaign volunteers became aware of their candidate"s questionable motives could they recognize the ______ statements made in his seemingly ______ speeches.
多选题Conservationists argue that unconstrained ______ of natural resources, which might deplete them forever, should be replaced with a policy of ______.
多选题Ironically, an affluent society that purchases much more food than it actually needs suffers because of that ______, since in conditions of affluence diseases related to overeating and poor nutrition seem to ______.
多选题Some environmentalists fear that the practices contributing to global warming are so ______ in industrialized nations that there are no simple ways to ______ their effects.
多选题Ellen Swallow Richards, a ______ environmental preservation in the United States, campaigned du ring the nineteenth century to ______ responsible practices in the discipline that has come to be known as ecology.
多选题Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris co-wrote The Crown of Columbus, a ______ effort successfully mingling their individual styles as writers.
多选题A common misconception is that university hospitals are better than
community or private hospitals. In fact, university hospitals have a lower
survival rate for patients than do other hospitals. From this it seems clear
that the quality of care at university hospitals is lower than that at other
hospitals. Which of the following, if true, most forcefully
undermines the arguments of the passage above?
A. Many doctors divide their working hours between a university and a
community or private hospital.
B. Doctors at university hospitals often earn less than doctors at private
hospitals.
C. University and community hospitals often cannot afford the elaborate
facilities of private hospitals.
D. The emphasis at many university hospitals is on pure research rather than
on the treatment and care of patients.
E. The patients who seek help at university hospitals are usually more
seriously ill than those at private or community hospitals.
多选题Knowing the reward of ______, NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa encourages students to study hard if they wish to pursue career in science and engineering.
多选题Some psychologists argue that a ______ of choices can be paralyzing, since too many options can impede meaningful selection.
多选题Professor Fernandez has been ______ about most of the purportedly humanitarian aspects of the colonial government and has insisted that its actions were, on the contrary, ______.
多选题{{U}}The common belief{{/U}} of some linguists that each language is a
perfect vehicle for the thoughts of the nation speaking it is in some ways the
exact counterpart of the conviction of the Manchester school of economics that
supply and demand will regulate everything for the best. {{U}}Just as{{/U}}
economists were blind to the numerous cases in which the law of supply and
demand left actual wants unsatisfied, so also many linguists are deaf to those
instances in which the very nature of a language calls forth misunderstandings
in everyday conversation, and in which, consequently, a word has to be modified
or defined in order to present the idea intended by the speaker:. "{{U}}He took
his stick—no, not John's, but his own{{/U}}." No language is perfect, and if we
admit this truth, we must also admit that it is not unreasonable to investigate
the relative merits of different languages or of different details in
languages. In presenting the argument, the author does all of
the following EXCEPT:
A. give an example.
B. draw a conclusion.
C. make a generalization.
D. make a comparison.
E. present a paradox.
多选题Contemporary lnuit sculpture merges traditional carving techniques with current subject matter; thus it ______ an lnuit practice while ______ a modern cultural identity.
多选题Nineteenth-century Plains Indians valued ______ quite highly and expected their elites to be the most giving of all.
多选题Despite global efforts to ______ malaria, this mosquito-borne disease continues to ______: the World Health Organization estimates that it still affects up to 500 million people a year.
多选题Despite the ______ of many of their colleagues, some scholars have
begun to emphasize pop culture as a key for ______ the myths, hopes, and fears
of contemporary society.
A. discernment
B. skepticism
C. quixotism
D. entangling
E. reinstating
F. deciphering
多选题Sitala ______ her Miwok name, meaning "of good memory": she can be counted on to ______ any experience, no matter how long ago it occurred.
多选题John Hope Franklin"s
From Slavery to Freedom
was ______ book because it permanently altered how United States history was studied.
多选题If Williams had a fault, it was an almost complete ______ others, a proclivity bordering on ______.
多选题The engineers heard the claims about the new software with ______, but the demonstration of the software was so ______ that it won them over.
多选题What had begun as good-natured teasing quickly gave way to ______ as the lost hikers blamed one another for their predicament.
