多选题A human being is quite ______ creature, for the gloss of rationality that covers his or her fears and ______ is thin and often easily breached. A. a logical B. a flail C. a valiant D. problems E. insecurity F. morality

多选题Colonial American playwright Mercy Otis Warren was known for her political ______: her keen judgment and insight were widely acknowledged.

多选题In winning the Man Booker Prize, novelist Kiran Desai ______ an honor that had ______ her mother, Anita Desai, who was a runner-up three times but never won.

多选题The skepticism of some ancient philosophers ______ and helps to elucidate varieties of nihilism that appeared in the early nineteenth century.

多选题Of Homer's two epic poems, the Odyssey has always been more popular than the Iliad, perhaps because it includes more features of mythology that are accessible to readers. {{U}}Its subject (to use Maynard Mack's categories) is "life-as-spectacle", for readers, diverted by its various incidents, observe its hero Odysseus primarily from without; the tragic Iliad, however, presents "life-as-experience": readers are asked to identify_ with the mind of Achilles, whose motivations render him a not particularly likable hero.{{/U}} In addition, the Iliad, more than the Odyssey, suggests the complexity of the gods' involvement in human actions, and to the extent that modem readers find this complexity a needless complication, the Iliad is less satisfying than the Odyssey, with its simpler scheme of divine justice. Finally, since the Iliad presents a historically verifiable action, Troy's siege, the poem raises historical questions that are absent from the Odyssey's blithely imaginative world. It can be inferred from the passage that a reader of the Iliad is likely to have trouble identifying with the poem's hero for which of the following reasons? A. The hero is eventually revealed to be unheroic. B. The hero can be observed by the reader only from without. C. The hero's psychology is not historically verifiable. D. The hero's emotions often do not seem appealing to the reader. E. The hem's emotions are not sufficiently various to engage the reader's attention.

多选题Several things, however, suggest that the conventional view needs revising. For example, the genus Lingula has an unbroken fossil record extending over more than half a billion years to the present. Thus, if longevity is any measure, brachiopods are the most successful organisms extant. {{U}}Further, recent studies suggest that diversity among species is a less important measure of evolutionary success{{/U}} than is the ability to withstand environmental change, such as when a layer of clay replaces sand on the ocean bottom. The relatively greater uniformity among the existing brachiopod species may offer greater protection from environmental change and hence may reflect highly successful adaptive behavior. It can be inferred from the passage that the conventional view is that a large diversity among species of a given class of organisms typically leads to which of the following? A. Difficulty in classification. B. A discontinuous fossil record. C. A greater chance of survival over time. D. Numerical abundance. E. A longer fife span.

多选题 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. Questions 1-5

多选题Although normally cheerful and energetic, Nathan was noticeably ______ during the week preceding the announcement of the pending job transfers.

多选题Continuing education helps health care professionals keep up with ______ scientific information and the ______ health care needs of the population.

多选题Ramona practiced ceaselessly, but even such ______ efforts could not compensate for the poor performance of her teammates.

多选题No one is ______ about Stephens; he inspires either uncritical adulation or profound ______ in those who work for him. A. neutral. B. infuriated. C. worried. D. consternation. E. anxiety. F. antipathy.

多选题Far from exhausting him, the more arduous work schedule seems to have ______ the convalescent doctor.

多选题He displayed a nearly pathological ______, insisting on knowing every detail of his friends" lives.

多选题More valuable and comprehensive than any previously proposed theory of the phenomenon, Salazar"s research has ______ the basis for all subsequent ______ in her field.

多选题In young children, some brain cells have a ______ that enables them to take over the functions of damaged or missing brain cells.

多选题Most politician find television ______ to the ______ of their messages: the medium plays an essential role in propagating their ideas.

多选题Mongolian gazelles are the dominant herbivore in Mongolia"s eastern steppe, but they are ______ by the ongoing loss of their habitat.

多选题Although visitors initially may find touring the city by subway to be ______, they are pleased to discover that subways are an inexpensive and ______ way to get around.

多选题Directions: Each of the following pieces of text contains one, two, or three blanks. These blanks signify that a Word or set of words has been left out. Below each piece of text are columns of choices. For each blank, select the word or set of words from the corresponding column of choices that best reflects the overall meaning of the text.

多选题Hypatia of Alexandria, a noted mathematician in Roman Egypt who also taught philosophy and astronomy, championed ______, deliberately ______ the mystical thinking and occult practices prevalent during her times.