多选题Anishinabe activist Winona LaDuke has worked to ______ many parcels of tribal land that, over decades, have been lost through sales or foreclosures.
多选题Mrs. Rodriguez was under the impression that discipline would ______ her wayward student"s academic progress rather than advance it.
多选题While the manager clearly sought to ______ the optimism of the marketing team, she stopped short of pronouncing their plan unfeasible.
多选题Joe publicly advocates ______ and self-control but, oddly enough, seems to admire most those people who achieve great things through ______.
多选题Menacing clouds and a sudden drop in temperature signaled the onset of ______ weather.
多选题The Classical Age of Greece, 500 B.C. to 323 B.C., was characterized by contradictions: it was a mix of superstition and ______, of ______ concepts and centuries-old traditions.
多选题Toni Cade Bambara"s novels are engrossing because the protagonists, in striving to achieve goals, are not simply ______ characters.
多选题Orangutans are ______ apes: they typically conduct most of their lives up in the trees of tropical rain forests.
多选题The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and
drive us to ______ accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of
news.
A. insular
B. investigative
C. synoptic
D. subjective
E. sensational
F. compendious
多选题Fred often used ______ to achieve his professional goals, even though such artful subterfuge alienated his colleagues.
多选题Oceanographers have identified more than 50 "dead zones" around the world: areas of sea that various forms of pollution have rendered ______ life.
多选题In the past, paintings by Black American artists often were ______; in contrast, many art critics today advocate an understanding of the works of Black artists as ______ to appreciating America"s diverse heritage.
多选题The discoveries made by Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock considered to be among the major ______ of twentieth-century biological science.
多选题Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and the knowledge
of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, some anthropologists have
______ achievements like the sophisticated carved calendar sticks of the
Winnebago people.
A. described
B. acknowledged
C. neglected
D. overlooked
E. defended
F. authenticated
多选题Dangerously high winds ______ attempts to begin the space shuttle mission on schedule, delaying the launch by nearly a week.
多选题Using fiber optics to deliver information initially seemed a ______ field of research, hard to understand by non-specialists.
多选题Studies of ______ among turtles are sometimes hampered by the fact
that the subjects live so long that researchers retire before the studies can be
completed.
A. extinction
B. longevity
C. behavior
D. mortality
E. reproduction
多选题Scientists wonder what to do with the dead satellites, jettisoned rockets, drifting paint flecks, and other ______ orbiting Earth.
多选题The audience recognized the officer"s characteristic ______ when he attributed his achievements to ______ rather than bravery.
多选题She vowed to proclaim her innocence until she was ______, cleared from blame for any involvement in the conspiracy.