多选题Articles for the magazine are always subjected to painstaking ______ before publication: fact checkers and editors ______ them for potential errors before they are sent to the printer.

多选题The psychologist"s ostensibly objective experiments were in fact ______: they subtly yet invariably supported her personal predilections.

多选题Her actions did nothing but good, but since she performed them out of self-interest, they could not be called______.

多选题The legislation facing Congress was so ______ that it threatened to shatter the governing body"s fragile bipartisanship.

多选题Just as astrology was for centuries ______ faith, countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of ______ the professional sciences. A. an accepted B. an underground C. an unknown D. anachronism to E. concern about F. defiance against

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 17-20, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. Questions 17-18 are based on the following passage. The stability that had marked the Iroquois Confederacy's generally pro-British position was shattered with the overthrow of James IILine in 1688, the colonial uprisings that followed (5) in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland, and the commencement of King William's War against Louis XIV of France. The increasing French threat to English hege- mony in the interior of North America was (10) signalized by French-led or French-inspired attacks on the Iroquois and on outlying colonial settlements in New York and New England. The high point of the Iroquois response was the spectacular raid of August (15) 5, 1689, in which the Iroquois virtually wiped out the French village of Lachine, just outside Montreal. A counter-raid by the French on the English village of Schenectady in March 1690 instilled an appropriate (20) measure of fear among the English and their Iroquois allies. The Iroquois position at the end of the war, which was formalized by treaties made during the summer of 1701 with the British (25) and the French, and which was maintained throughout most of the eighteenth century, was one of "aggressive neutrality" between the two competing European powers. Under the new system the Iroquois initiated a peace (30) policy toward the "far Indians," tightened their control over the nearby tribes, and induced both English and French to support their neutrality toward the European powers by appropriate gifts and concessions.

多选题Alarmed that land-clearing practices are rapidly ______ crucial habitat, the government of Madagascar is working hard to ______ in its citizens a sense of pride in the nation"s diverse animal and plant species.

多选题Because they had expected the spacecraft Voyager 2 to be able to gather data only about the planets Jupiter and Saturn, scientists were ______ the wealth of information it sent back from Neptune years after leaving Earth. A. anxious for B. confident in C. thrilled about D. keen on E. elated by F. eager for

多选题Morels are related to cup fungi, but they are both more anatomically complex and more widely ______ for their flavor.

多选题The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the era when Pueblo pottery was least likely to be ______ and from which consequently, the fewest authentic examples ______.

多选题When X-ray were discovered around the turn of the twentieth century, doctors quickly began to ______ their newfound ability to diagnose maladies by peering beneath the surface of the human body.

多选题Scientists require observable data, not ______, to support a hypothesis; sound science is grounded in ______ results rather than speculation.

多选题The city reveals its unique type of ______ most fully during the cheerful and noisy New Year"s celebrations, which attract international as well as local participants.

多选题 Questions 19-20 are based on the following passage. A recent assessment of the status of global amphibian populations identified habitat loss as the single greatest identifiable factorLine contributing to amphibian declines. Habitat (5) loss primarily results from the residential, agricultural, arboricultural, or recreational development of an area. Anthropogenic conversion of land has caused significant reductions in the wetland, (10) forest, and grassland habitat that amphibians require for their survival. Outright habitat loss probably has the greatest effect on amphibians, but habitat degradation, or the general decline in the health of a habitat, (15) often results from environmental contamina- tion, the introduction of exotic invasive species, or a reduction in required resources within a habitat, and similarly affects amphibians. Likewise, habitat fragmentation (20) (the disruption or fragmentation of habitat into discontinuous or isolated remnants of viable habitat) emerges from isolated patches of habitat loss and can often have delayed effects on animal populations. Directions: For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

多选题The prose of Richard Wright"s autobiographical Black Boy (1945) is ______, free of stylistic tricks or evasiveness.

多选题The tone of Jane Carlyle's letter is guarded, and her feelings are always ______ by the wit and pride that made ______ plea for sympathy impossible for her. A. masked B. bolstered C. enhanced D. a direct E. a needless F. a circumspect

多选题Because the editors refused to take a stand on controversial subjects, their magazine acquired a reputation for intellectual ______.

多选题Jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong is renowned for his improvisations on the trumpet; his innovations as a vocalist are equally ______.

多选题Nuclear engineer Meena Mutyala argues that nuclear power is an environmentally ______ technology, operating with essentially no emissions.

多选题Tania excels at dancing the merengue, having ______ the steps during her childhood years in the Dominican Republic.