多选题The two sisters selflessly dedicated their lives to the nursing profession: their ______ made them ______, ones whose ways are worthy of imitation.
多选题Cathedrals usually take decades, even centuries, to complete; thus, no one expected the National Cathedral to be built with ______.
多选题The senator delivered such ______ speech that her supporters, inspired by her obvious fervor, were moved to action.
多选题During decades of oppression, the people lost their will to resist and became ______, yielding readily to the government"s demands.
多选题His name has become synonymous with seduction, but many people fail to realize that Casanova was not a fictional character but rather a real, fascinating person. The book about his escapades is a memoir, not a novel. He was the son of an actress and her paramour, born in Venice in 1725. His patrons sent him to the University of Padua when he was only 12 years old, and he graduated with a degree in law, although he was far more interested in medicine. He became a professional gambler (not a good one}, and he lived off the kindness of patrons, moving from city to city across Europe, often one step ahead of the law or his own debts. It was in his later years that he began writing the enormous and unfinished memoir that would be his legacy. His chronicling of the famous people he met along his way makes his memoir a valuable document of an era.
多选题The frequent name changes that the country has undergone ______ the political turbulence that has attended its recent history.
多选题Lina Wertmuller"s film
Love and Anarchy
is a ______ its title, contemplating the two concepts without taking a position on them.
多选题Architect Maya Lin wants people to experience her commemorative monuments tactilely: that is, she wants them to ______ these structures.
多选题In some cultures the essence of magic is its traditional integrity; it
can be efficient only if it has been ______ without loss from primeval times to
the present practitioner.
A. conventionalized
B. realized
C. transmitted
D. manipulated
E. aggrandized
多选题Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor
confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for
their ______.
A. insight
B. obstinacy
C. introspection
D. tolerance
E. credulity
多选题Evan imperiously demanded that he be awarded a much-needed raise or be dismissed, ______ that ______ when he was summarily terminated.
多选题His goal was to ______ the committee"s deliberations, and a measure of his success was the ease with which a decision was reached.
多选题In an effort to ______ the ______ theater, the troupe members contributed thousands of dollars to keep the playhouse operating.
多选题Created to serve as perfectly as possible their workaday ______, the
wooden storage boxes made in America's Shaker communities are now valued for
their beauty.
A. environment
B. owners
C. function
D. reality
E. circumstances
多选题The author ______ the last act of her play to appease those critics who ______ the work for its brevity.
多选题The signs that the skeleton had been tampered with were so ______ that the archaeologist almost failed to notice them.
多选题Because curiosity is deemed the ______ of the scientific temperament, theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, renowned for his ceaseless questioning，was regarded by some as an ______ of the scientific spirit.
多选题The senator never formally declared her opposition to the proposed legislation; instead, she engineered a series of ______ actions that ultimately ______ passage of the bill.
多选题Over the years the anthropologist"s opinions had ______: he refused to tolerate new ideas and nothing could change his mind.
多选题A trained anthropologist raised in an Alutiiq community, Sven Haakanson has stressed the importance of indigenous communities ______ anthropologists so that such communities can take an active role in ______ their own cultural heritage.