多选题Geographic labels for lunar features often suggest, wrongly, that the moon is covered with bodies of water. Blame early astronomers, who were unable to distinguish lava flows from seas or oceans. Primarily to blame is probably Giovanni Riccioli, a priest and astronomer whose nomenclature for Francesco Grimaldi"s lunar map is still used today. The Mare Tranquillitatis, or Sea of Tranquility, is really a volcanic basalt basin surrounded by high walls. The Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms, is a vast, flat lowland that some call the Great Plains of the moon. The Lacus Felicitatis, the Lake of Happiness, is another low-lying patch of lava, and the Palus Putredinis, or Marsh of Decay, is a lava flow with a crater on one end and a mountain on the other. The dampness implied by the names is simply an illusion; basalt reflects less light than the surrounding rock, making these regions appear dark and deep.

多选题Although the hardy emperor penguin survives in Antarctica in great numbers, the region"s harsh climate is ______ to many species.

多选题Demagogues do not deserve full blame for last summer"s public hysteria: although they turned the mood to their political advantage, they did not actually ______ it.

多选题Accused of ______ the public"s trust by pilfering tax-payers" money, the state legislators were condemned for their ______.

多选题Annoyed by the new employee"s excessively ______ manner, the supervisor advised him that such fawning was inappropriate.

多选题Ryan"s ______ bothered his friends, who tired of instability and constant changes of allegiance.

多选题The works of Paraguayan artist Carlos Colombino are ______: they include sculpture, painting, printmaking, and architecture.

多选题Crucial to the expedition"s ______ will be accurate assumptions about the weather: Without them, the safety of the mountain climbers may be ______.

多选题The new human resources director is both ______ and ______ about being able to improve employment opportunities for women at the executive level: she has great resolve but harbors no illusions.

多选题Luisa worked with extreme precision, ______ that served her well in her law career.

多选题The biologist"s description of the wolf pack was truly ______, devoid of any emotion or personal prejudice.

多选题Studying gray whales during the 1970s, marine biologist Mary Lou Jones dubbed one of her subjects "Amazing Graces", for its friendliness was ______ and its movements underwater ______ beyond description.

多选题It would seem unlikely that evolution should discriminate against sinistral snails if sinistral and dextral snails are exact mirror images, for any disadvantage that a sinistral twist in itself could confer on its possessor is almost inconceivable. But left- and right-handed snails are not actually true mirror images of one another. Their shapes are noticeably different. Sinistral rarity might, then, be a consequence of possible disadvantages conferred by these other concomitant structural features. In addition, perhaps left- and fight-handed snails cannot mate with each other, having incompatible twist directions. Presumably an individual of the rarer form would have relative difficulty in finding a mate of the same hand, thus keeping the rare form rare or creating geographically separated right-and left-handed populations. The passage is primarily concerned with offering possible reasons why A. it is unlikely that evolutionary mechanisms could discriminate against sinistral snails. B. sinistrality is relatively uncommon among snail species. C. dextral and sinistral populations of a snail species tend to intermingle. D. a theory based on a developmental mechanism inadequately accounts for the predominance of dextrality across snail species. E. dextral snails breed more readily than sinistral snails, even within predominantly sinistral populations.

多选题There was so much ______in the recent senatorial campaign that voters tuned out, disgusted with the barrage of malicious accusations.

多选题Media reports alleged that the candidate"s campaign strategy was designed to ______ her opponent"s chances for election by defaming his reputation.

多选题Hydrogen is the ______ element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced. A. steadiest B. expendable C. lightest D. final E. fundamental

多选题Jessica was ______ by Jon"s angry outburst: she literally did not know what to say, think, or do.

多选题As one would expect, the reclusive poet ______ public appearance and invasions of privacy.

多选题More ______ than her predecessor, Superintendent Reynolds would, many predicted, have a far less ______ term of office.

多选题 Directions: The passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Once you have read the passage, select the answer choice that best answers each question. Answer all questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. For each of Questions 7-9, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. Questions 7-9 are based on the following passage. Mary Shelley herself was the first to point to her fortuitous immersion in the literary and scientific revolutions of her day as theLine source of her novel Frankenstein. Her (5) extreme youth, as well as her sex, have con- tributed to the generally held opinion that she was not so much an author in her own right as a transparent medium through which passed the ideas of those around her. (10) "All Mrs. Shelley did," writes Mario Praz, "was to provide a passive reflection of some of the wild fantasies which were living in the air about her." Passive reflections, however, do not pro- (15) duce original works of literature, and Frankenstein, if not a great novel, was unquestionably an original one. The major Romantic and minor Gothic tradition to which it should have belonged was to the lit- (20) erature of the overreacher: the superman who breaks through normal human limitations to defy the rules of society and infringe upon the realm of God. In the Faust story, hyper- trophy of the individual will is symbolized by (25) a pact with the devil. Byron's and Balzac's heroes; the Wandering Jew; the chained and unchained Prometheus: all are overreachers, all are punished by their own excesses—by a surfeit of sensation, of experience, of knowl- (30) edge and, most typically, by the doom of eternal life. But Mary Shelley's overreacher is different. Frankenstein's exploration of the forbidden boundaries of human science does not cause the prolongation and extension of (35) his own life, but the creation of a new one. He defies mortality not by living forever, but by giving birth.