多选题Pardis Sabeti has earned distinction in ______ ways: she developed a means of tracing natural selection in the genome and she sang in a successful rock band.
多选题Unlike her more ______ friends, Danielle is ______, preferring sleep to almost any kind of activity.
多选题Ecologist Frank Ortega warned that the state"s decision to ______ the rigid standards for disposal of toxic wastes would be construed as a signal that sloppiness in handling such wastes will be tolerated.
多选题Commercial trade in endangered species of whales was suspended globally in 1986, but this ______ may end for some species.
多选题Although ore-Columbian jewelry often incorporated complex religious symbolism, its function was generally more ______ than ______.
多选题Some communities in Florida are populated almost exclusively by
retired people and contain few, if any, families with small children. Yet these
communities are home to thriving businesses specializing in the rental of
furniture for infants and small children. Which of the following, if true, best
reconciles the seeming discrepancy described above?
A. The businesses specializing in the rental of children's furniture buy
their furniture from distributors outside of Florida.
B. The few children who do reside in these communities all know each other
and often make overnight visits to one another's houses.
C. Many residents of these communities who move frequently prefer renting
their furniture to buying it outright.
D. Many residents of these communities must provide for the needs of
visiting grandchildren several weeks a year.
E. Children's furniture available for rental is of the same quality as that
available for sale in the stores.
多选题Recent data recording a bottlenose whale"s phenomenal dive of over 4700 feet ______ earlier ______ that such whales were among the sea"s deepest divers.
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 15-20,
select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. Questions
15-17 are based on the following passage. (The passage was written in the latter
half of the 20th century.) The coastlines on the two
sides of the Atlantic Ocean present a notable
parallelism: the easternmost region of Brazil, inLine
Pernambuco, has a convexity that corre- (5) sponds almost
perfectly with the concavity of the African Gulf of Guinea,
while the con- tours of the African coastline between Rio
de Oro and Liberia would, by the same approx-
imation, match those of the Caribbean Sea. (10) Similar
correspondences are also observed in many other regions of the
Earth. This observation began to awaken scientific
inter- est about sixty years ago, when Alfred
Wegener, a professor at the University of (15) Hamburg, used it
as a basis for formulating a revolutionary theory in geological
science. According to Wegener, there was
origi- nally only one continent or land mass, which
he called Pangaea. Inasmuch as continental (20) masses
are lighter than the base on which they rest, he reasoned, they must
float on the substratum of igneous rock, known as sima, as
ice floes float on the sea. Then why, he asked, might continents not
be subject to (25) drifting? The rotation of the globe and
other forces, he thought, had caused the cracking and,
finally, the breaking apart of the origi- nal Pangaea, along an
extensive line repre- sented today by the longitudinal
submerged (30) mountain range in the center of the
Atlantic. While Africa seems to have remained static, the
Americas apparently drifted toward the west until they reached their
present position after more than 100 million years. Although
(35) the phenomenon seems fantastic, accus- tomed as we are to
the concept of the rigid- ity and immobility of the continents, on
the basis of the distance that separates them it is possible
to calculate that the continental (40) drift would have been no
greater than two inches per year.
多选题Despite the ______ of popular interest in rain forests and medicinal plants, there is a ______ easy-to-use field guides.
多选题On the verge of financial collapse, the museum was granted a ______, receiving a much-needed ______ of cash in the form of a government loan.
多选题With its large circulation, Essence magazine has enjoyed ______ only recently challenged by new publications aggressively seeking female African American readers.
多选题As a child, Mary ______ her stringent upbringing; however, as she grew older she began to appreciate her grandmother"s strict ______.
多选题Because only a few speakers of northern Australia"s Gagadju language remain, the deaths of these tribal elders may mean the ______ of their mostly oral traditions.
多选题Because postmodernist critics often rely on ______ language, their prose frequently seems ______ to nonspecialists who fail to comprehend its meaning.
多选题Given the exponential growth of scientific knowledge, medicine is far less ______ unsubstantiated fads than it used to be; its record of folly, however, remains an undeniable ______.
多选题During the 1950s, talented African American actresses like Dorothy Dandridge were often ______, relegated to playing mostly stereotypical roles.
多选题The ______ of turtles and tortoises is ______; one giant tortoise in a Calcutta zoo is believed to have reached the age of 250 years.
多选题Named in honor of the school"s founder, the Richard Brownstone Community Service Fellowship is one of the highest awards ______ Brownstone School graduates.
多选题The attempts of epidemiologists to ______ the infectious disease ultimately proved futile: as soon as they managed to ______ it in one community, it would emerge somewhere else.
多选题 Directions: For each of the following sentences, select the
two answers of the six choices given that, when substituted in the sentence,
both logically complete the sentence as a whole and create sentences that are
equivalent to one another in meaning, Questions 1-5