多选题The ability to cram computer circuitry onto silicon chips faces fundamental limitations: it is possible to make the innards of a circuit so ______ that they no longer ______.

多选题National character is not formally considered by social scientists in discussing economic and social development today. They believe that people differ and that these differences should be taken into account somehow, but they have as yet discovered no way to include such variables in their formal models of economic and social development. The difficulty ties in the nature of the data that supposedly define different national characters. Anthropologists and others are on much firmer ground when they attempt to describe the cultural norms for a small homogeneous tribe or village than when they undertake the formidable task of discovering the {{U}}norms that exist in a complex modem nation-state composed of many disparate groups{{/U}}. The situation is further complicated by the nature of judgments about character, since such judgments are overly dependent on impressions and since, furthermore, impressions are usually stated in qualitative terms, it is impossible to make a reliable comparison between the national characters of two countries. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true of modem nation-states? A. They are complex. B. They are heterogeneous. C. They are of interest to social scientists. D. They lack cultural norms. E. They differ from one another in terms of national character.

多选题Because Russell was such a memorable and ______ public speaker, many people mistook his ability to talk about a wide range of topics for genuine ______.

多选题The ______ has proved to be ______: as a result, negotiations have been suspended indefinitely.

多选题Cynics believe that people who ______ compliments do so in order to be praised twice. A. bask in B. give out C. despair of D. gloat over E. shrug off

多选题The horizontal lines of the (i) ______ of architecture called the Prairie School are supposed to (ii) ______ the horizon of the flat prairie grassland. The (iii) ______ of this style was that architecture should rise naturally out of its site. Blank (i) A. focus B. brand C. style Blank (ii) D. equate E. reveal F. evoke Blank (iii) G. premise H. tenor I. belief

多选题The twigs of this shrub have a signature ______ whose pungency enables people to ______ the shrub even in winter when its leaves have fallen.

多选题Although the feeding activities of whales and walruses give the seafloor of the Bering Shelf a devastated appearance, these activities seem to be actually ______ to the area, ______ its productivity. A. beneficial B. detrimental C. superfluous D. encumbering E. redirecting F. enhancing

多选题Gertrude Stein"s life demonstrates her ______, her refusal ever to give up without having achieved her goal.

多选题When literary periods are defined on the basis of men's writing, women's writing must be forcibly assimilated into an irrelevant grid: a Renaissance that is not a renaissance for women, a Romantic period in which women played very little part, a modernism with which women conflict. Simultaneously, the history of women's writing has been suppressed, leaving large, mysterious gaps in accounts of the development of various genres. {{U}}Feminist criticism is beginning to correct this situation.{{/U}} Margaret Anne Doody, for example, suggests that during "the period between the death of Richardson and the appearance of the novels of Scott and Austen," which has "been regarded as a dead period," late- eighteenth-century women writers actually developed "the paradigm for women's fiction of the nineteenth century—something hardly less than the paradigm of the nineteenth-century novel itself." Feminist critics have also pointed out that the twentieth-century writer Virginia Woolf belonged to a tradition other than modernism and that this tradition surfaces in her work precisely where criticism has hitherto found obscurities, evasions, implausibilities, and imperfections. The author quotes Doody most probably in order to illustrate A. a contribution that feminist criticism can make to literary criticism. B. a modernist approach that conflicts with women's writing. C. writing by a woman which had previously been ignored. D. the hitherto overlooked significance of Scott's and Austen's novels. E. a standard system of defining literary periods.

多选题Oren missed the play"s overarching significance, focusing instead on details so minor that they would best be described as ______.

多选题Momentum gathered for a new property tax, but the ______ from home owners was so great that this proposal had to be ______.

多选题Maya Angelou and Anais Nin were ______ of self-exposure: they were among the first female writers willing to ______ their own sometimes questionable exploits and emotional shortcomings.

多选题Multiplane cameras were a critical invention for early animated films: they ______ realism by allowing drawings to appear three-dimensional.

多选题The mountain road was distinctly ______: it twisted back and forth along the contours of the hillside.

多选题The scientists hypothesized that the newly discovered virus multiplies by ______ living cells, where the viral genetic material uses the cellular materials of the host to ______ new viruses.

多选题{{U}}Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England.{{/U}} McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm's remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferation of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children's toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain: Who were the consumers? What were their motives? And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries? In the first paragraph, the author mentions McKendrick and Plumb most probably in order to: A. contrast their views on the subject of luxury consumerism in eighteenth-century England. B. indicate the inadequacy of historiographical approaches to eighteenth-century English history. C. give examples of historians who have helped to establish the fact of growing consumerism in eighteenth-century England. D. support the contention that key questions about eighteenth-century consumerism remain to be answered. E. compare one historian's interest in luxury goods such as pottery to another historian's interest in luxury services such as musical festivals.

多选题The recent decline in the value of the dollar was triggered by a prediction of slower economic growth in the coming year. But that prediction would not have adversely affected the dollar had it not been for the government's huge budget deficit, which must therefore be decreased to prevent future currency declines. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion about how to prevent future currency declines? A. The government has made little attempt to reduce the budget deficit. B. The budget deficit has not caused a slowdown in economic growth. C. The value of the dollar declined several times in the year prior to the recent prediction of slower economic growth. D. Before there was a large budget deficit, predictions of slower economic growth frequently caused declines in the dollar's value. E. When there is a large budget deficit, other events in addition to predictions of slower economic growth sometimes trigger declines in currency value.

多选题Because Alex was a very ______ person, he found satisfaction only in work that involved intellectual stimulation.

多选题However, a number of features that are characteristic of wind-pollinated plants reduce pollen waste. For example, many wind-pollinated species fail to release pollen when wind speeds are low or when humid conditions prevail. Recent studies suggest another way in which species compensate for the inefficiency of wind pollination. These studies suggest that species frequently take advantage of the physics of pollen motion by generating specific aerodynamic environments within the immediate vicinity of their female reproductive organs. {{U}}It is the morphology of these organs that dictates the pattern of airflow disturbances through which pollen must travel.{{/U}} The speed and direction of the airflow disturbances can combine with the physical properties of a species' pollen to produce a species-specific pattern of pollen collision on the surfaces of female reproductive organs. Provided that these surfaces are strategically located, the consequences of this combination can significantly increase the pollen-capture efficiency of a female reproductive organ. The "aerodynamic environments" mentioned in the passage, when they are produced, are primarily determined by the A. presence of insects near the plant. B. physical properties of the plant's pollen. C. shape of the plant's female reproductive organs. D. amount of pollen generated by the plant. E. number of seeds produced by the plant.