多选题Patricia is so ______ that she is unable to tolerate others deviating in the least from rules and conventions.

多选题Biodemographer S. Jay Olshansky regards commercial products that promise to stop aging as ______, arguing that while these nostrums might possibly ______ some of aging"s superficial manifestations, they cannot touch the process at its core.

多选题Despairing that the performance of the chief executive would ever improve, the corporation"s board of directors took decisive action and ______ him.

多选题Although the rigors of ballet dancing are primarily ______, this art is also emotionally and spiritually ______.

多选题The Mona Lisa, shipped in a private cabin and received by important dignitaries, was treated more like ______ than a painting upon its arrival in the United States.

多选题Responding to criticism that the script was rambling and ______, the new screenwriter revised the dialogue for greater succinctness and ______.

多选题Though earlier anatomists had touched on the idea, Paul Broca was the first to ______ fully the modern notion that specific behaviors are controlled by particular areas of the human brain.

多选题The controversial tax fueled a sustained ______ that could not be ______ by the Prime Minister"s impassioned speeches.

多选题Soon after the first visitors arrived, increasing numbers of the residents of the remote island thought it possible that the outside world, instead of being ______, could be ______ and worth exploring.

多选题Because his themes and use of imagery are highly eccentric, painter Sigmar Polke is said to have ______ style.

多选题Because their previous supervisor had been especially ______ and understanding, the staff members were ______ the authoritarian style of the new director.

多选题In All God"s Children Need Traveling Shoes, author Maya Angelou uses ______, brief descriptive sketches, to provide ______ view of Ghana that clearly details the land and its people.

多选题Thomas Edison, who found collaboration essential, never fit the popular stereotype of the ______ inventor, struggling alone in a garret.

多选题Commentators suggested that many students of the 1950s were ______ radical politics because they saw nothing in American life against which they should revolt.

多选题The scientific organization ______ the newspaper for prominently covering the predictions of a psychic while ______ to report on a major research conference.

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. Feminist criticism is beginning to correct this situation. 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 {{U}}as a dead period{{/U}}", 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 passage provides information that answers which of the following questions? A. In what tradition do feminist critics usually place Virginia Woolf? B. What are the main themes of women's fiction of the nineteenth century? C. What events motivated the feminist reinterpretation of literary history? D. How has the period between Richardson's death and Scott's and Austen's novels traditionally been regarded by critics? E. How was the development of the nineteenth-century novel affected by women's fiction in the same century?

多选题Although many of the students had found the assignment ______, Harrison completed it with ease.

多选题An important ______ for assessing the performance of a glider is its capacity to remain aloft for extended periods.

多选题To reflect the ______ of that nation"s spoken languages, its writers often make use of a mixture of dialects. A articulation B. enunciation C. multiplicity D. profundity E. heterogeneity F. spontaneity

多选题Carla draws ______ responses, reactions characterized by verbal abuse, from those disagree with her most strongly.