多选题Because an older horse is more ______ than a younger one, it is safer for a novice rider.

多选题Freedom of expression is not necessarily a ______ force: communities that encourage it often feel less threatened by social unrest than do those in which dissent is ______.

多选题A researcher who described a peaceful reunion between normally adversarial chimpanzees as a ______ was criticized for inferring human motives.

多选题Her first concert appearance was disappointingly perfunctory and derivative, rather than the ______ performance in the ______ style we had anticipated. A. inspired B. prosaic C. literal D. tenuous E. innovative F. mechanical

多选题As an architect who rehabilitates older buildings, Roberta Washington objected to a city policy that resulted in the mass ______ of clearly ______ structures.

多选题Despite its patent ______, this belief has become so ______ that no amount of rational argument will suffice to eradicate it.

多选题The man"s colleagues characterized him as ______, because he has an irritable, quarrelsome disposition.

多选题That Carl Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland, was truly ______ is evident from the significant impact he had in many different arenas.

多选题Fermat"s last theorem has been called the most ______ problem in all mathematics: for over 350 years, the conjecture ______ mathematicians, until it was finally proven in 1995.

多选题Dr. Abraham often understated his accomplishments, even at times ______the way he had achieved his success against overwhelming obstacles.

多选题Edgar"s ______ at having bungled the simple assignment was clear from his trembling lips and averted eyes.

多选题Ellen respects Gary"s qualities of broad-mindedness and humanism; she cannot, however, ______ them with his ______ support of a political creed that seems to oppose precisely those qualities.

多选题Citing irrefutable evidence of corruption, the investigating committee ______ the senator for his ______.

多选题 Questions 18-20 are based on the following passage. The Quechua world is submerged, so to speak, in a cosmic magma that weighs heav- ily upon it. It possesses the rare quality ofLine being as it were interjected into the midst of (5) antagonistic forces, which in turn implies a whole body of social and aesthetic structures whose innermost meaning must be the administration of energy. This gives rise to the social organism known as the ayllu, the (10) agrarian community that regulates the pro- curement of food. The ayllu formed the basic structure of the whole Inca empire. The central idea of this organization was a kind of closed economy, just the opposite of (15) our economic practices, which can be described as open. The closed economy rested on the fact that the Inca controlled both the production and consumption of food. When one adds to this fact the reli- (20) gious ideas noted in the Quechua texts cited by the chronicler Santa Cruz Pachacuti, one comes to the conclusion that in the Andean zone the margin of life was minimal and was made possible only by the system of (25) magic the Quechua constructed through his religion. Adversities, moreover, were numerous, for the harvest might fail at any time and bring starvation to millions. Hence the (30) whole purpose of the Quechua administra- tive and ideological system was to carry on the arduous task of achieving abundance and staving off shortages. This kind of structure presupposes a state of unremitting anxiety, (35) which could not be resolved by action. The Quechua could not do so because his pri- mordial response to problems was the use of magic, that is, recourse to the unconscious for the solution of external problems. Thus (40) the struggle against the world was a struggle against the dark depths of the Quechua's own psyche, where the solution was found. By overcoming the unconscious, the outer world was also vanquished. (45) These considerations permit us to classify Quechua culture as absolutely static or, more accurately, as the expression of a mere state of being. Only in this way can we under- stand the refuge that it took in the germina- (50) tive center of the cosmic mandala as revealed by Quechua art. The Quechua empire was nothing more than a mandala, for it was divided into four zones, with Cuzco in the center. Here the Quechua ensconced himself (55) to contemplate the decline of the world as though it were caused by an alien and autonomous force.

多选题Led by Massasoit and William Bradford, the Wampanoag communities and Plymouth Colony created a military and economic ______, drawing upon one another"s resources for decades.

多选题People did not suddenly learn to use fire, but did so slowly over time with countless advances offset by ______ period.

多选题Some readers find the crime fiction of Patricia Highsmith to be ______ because her protagonists are not always punished for their ______.

多选题Although the development of new infrastructure (such public facilities as power plants, schools, and bridges) is usually determined by governmental planning, {{U}}sometimes this development can be planned more flexibly and realistically by private investors{{/U}} who anticipate profit from the collection of user fees. Such profits can contribute to the financing of more infrastructure if demand proves great enough, whereas the reluctance of developers to invest in such projects can signal that additional infrastructure is not needed. During the economic boom of the 1980's, for example, the state of Virginia authorized private developers to build a $300 million toll road. The passage implies that the "governmental planning" mentioned in line 4 may lead to which of the following problems? A. Improper use of profits derived from user fees. B. Unduly slow development of necessary new infrastructure. C. Unrealistic decisions about developing new infrastructure. D. Incorrect predictions about profits to be gained from user fees. E. Obstruction of private financing for the development of new infrastructure.

多选题The consumer advocate claimed that while drug manufacturers ______ the supposed advantages of their proprietary brands, generic versions of the same medications are often equally ______.

多选题Although in public life Simone de Beauvoir"s feminist stance was uncompromising, her personal life revealed a greater degree of ideological ______.