多选题Sally was a lighthearted and even-tempered woman: she had none of her sister"s ______.

多选题The staff complained that management was ______, focusing on short-term profits while disregarding the long-term welfare of the corporation.

多选题Popular interest in music performed by folk singer Jean Ritchie acted as a ______ because it ______ a wider interest in the music of Ritchie"s native Kentucky.

多选题Despite her reputation for being ______ and ______, the musician in fact was neither reserved nor thin-skinned.

多选题Hank Morgan, the hero of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, is a nineteenth-century master mechanic who mysteriously awakening in sixth-century Britain, launches what he hopes will be a peaceful revolution to transform Arthurian Britain into an industrialized modem democracy. The novel, written as a spoof of Thomas Malory's Morted' Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies. {{U}}None of these{{/U}} translations to screen and stage, however, {{U}}dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee,{{/U}} which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan's three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babblings about drawbridges and battlements. {{U}}The American public, although enjoying Twain's humor, evidently rejected his cynicism{{/U}} about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress. The author uses the examples of "three upbeat movies and two musical comedies" primarily in order to demonstrate that A. well-written novels like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, regardless of their tone or theme, can be translated to the stage and screen. B. the American public has traditionally been more interested in watching plays and movies than in reading novels like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. C. Twain's overall message in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one that had a profound impact on the American public. D. Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has been a more popular version of the Arthurian legends than has Malory's Morted' Arthur. E. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has been accepted as an enjoyable and humorous tale in versions that have omitted the anarchy at the novel's conclusion.

多选题Concrete is ______ of many materials, a composite of rocks, pebbles, sand, and cement.

多选题Once the principal ______ that the fire alarm had been set off by accident, she apologized to the suspected students and announced that they had been ______.

多选题The ______ plots of Agatha Christie"s detective stories reflect the complexities hidden beneath the simple appearances of English village life.

多选题Although the revelation that one of the contestants was a friend left the judge open to charges of lack of ______, the judge remained adamant in her assertion that acquaintance did not necessarily imply ______. A. detachment B. exoneration C. prejudice D. tolerance E. foreknowledge F. partiality

多选题Frances Keller"s 1904 expose of abuses of immigrants by employers ______ a political reaction: it inspired the Progressive Party to work toward legislation to ______the situation.

多选题Although the theory that widespread lead poisoning contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire has gained ______, the evidence is still ______.

多选题The range of colors that homeowners could use On the exterior of their houses was ______ by the community"s stringent rules regarding upkeep of property.

多选题Hoping to preserve natural habitats, conservationists lobbies for legislation that would ______ commercial development in these areas.

多选题Flannery O"Connor was ______ as a writer of ______ talent early in her career, receiving high praise for her short stories while she was still a student.

多选题Maggie is a procrastinator, naturally inclined to ______ and to ______ discussions.

多选题The interviews published in the magazine were actually more like ______, open and friendly exchanges of ideas and feelings.

多选题In this film, the dull rhetoric and plodding behavior of the hero make him a splendid ______ for the witty and ______ heroine.

多选题Alfred Schnittke"s musical compositions are ______: phrases are clipped, broken into sections, and split apart by long rests.

多选题The newest member of the research team, not wanting to appear ______, refrained from ______ any criticism of the principal scientist"s plan for completing the project.

多选题No longer considered ______, the belief that all of Puerto Rico"s indigenous Taino people perished centuries ago appears to be a ______ now that modern Taino descendants have come forward.