多选题The ______ of this remote region was remarkable: towering peaks loomed above plunging valleys.

多选题Although Caroline Gordon was rigorously objective in her journalistic writing, her lively and ______ private correspondence ______ a delightful capacity for biting commentary on the social scene.

多选题The transfer of heat and water vapor from the ocean to the air above it depends on a disequilibrium at the interface of the water and the air. Within about a millimeter of the water, air temperature is close to that of the surface water, and the air is nearly saturated with water vapor. But the differences, however small, are crucial, and the disequilibrium is maintained by air near the surface mixing with air higher up, which is typically appreciably cooler and lower in water-vapor content. The air is mixed by means of turbulence that depends on the wind for its energy. As wind speed increases, so does turbulence, and thus the rate of heat and moisture transfer. Detailed understanding of this phenomenon awaits further study. An interacting—and complicating—phenomenon is wind-to-water transfer of momentum that occurs when waves are formed. When the wind makes waves, it transfers important amounts of energy—energy that is therefore not available to provide turbulence. The primary purpose of the passage is to: A. resolve a controversy. B. describe a phenomenon. C. outline a theory. D. confirm research findings. E. classify various observations.

多选题 Questions 10-11 are based on the following passage. According to the theory of plate tectonics, the lithosphere (earth's relatively hard and solid outer layer consisting of the crust andLine part of the underlying mantle) is divided (5) into a few dozen plates that vary in size and shape; in general, these plates move in rela- tion to one another. They move away from one another at a mid-ocean ridge, a long chain of sub-oceanic mountains that forms a (10) boundary between plates. At a mid-ocean ridge, new lithospheric material in the form of hot magma pushes up from the earth's interior. The injection of this new lithos- pheric material from below causes the phe- (15) nomenon known as sea-floor spreading. Given that the earth is not expanding in size to any appreciable degree, how can "new" lithosphere be created at a mid-ocean ridge? For new lithosphere to come into (20) being in one region, an equal amount of lithospheric material must be destroyed somewhere else. This destruction takes place at a boundary between plates called a sub- duction zone. At a subduction zone, one (25) plate is pushed down under another into the red-hot mantle, where over a span of mil- lions of years it is absorbed into the mantle.

多选题The new policy has been called a quiet revolution because, though introduced without ______, it is already producing ______ changes.

多选题True vertigo is not mere dizziness but ______ motion: an involuntary, erroneous perception that one is moving.

多选题Peter was ______ without being ______: he held fast to his beliefs but avoided arguing about them with others.

多选题The highly publicized redesign of the car is essentially ______: the exterior has been updated, but the engine remains unchanged.

多选题Anna Freud"s impact on psychoanalysis was ______, coming not from one brilliant discovery but from a lifetime of first-rate work.

多选题The book"s final chapter on Mildred Imach Cleghorn suffers from an obvious ______: It fails to cover Cleghorn"s years as an Apache tribal leader.

多选题The 1990"s were ______ years for the organization: the staff was happy, customers were satisfied, and profits were excellent.

多选题The vocation of literary criticism should in no way ______ the critic"s pleasure in a work of art; at the same time, however, such enjoyment should not ______ judgment.

多选题Thriving hub though it was, medieval Fustat probably presented a ______ kind of appearance; excavations there have revealed dwellings similar to unremarkable structures elsewhere in rural Egypt.

多选题The entrepreneur had a well-deserved reputation for ______, having accurately anticipated many changes unforeseen by other established business leaders.

多选题Despite ______ on taking rare tamarins from their habitat, the illegal trade in the tiny monkeys remains ______.

多选题Writer John Worthen suggested that, in some cases, biographers should be ______, considering all available details rather than making ______ a first principle.

多选题The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an ______ process closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic. A. unreliable B. arcane C. arrogant D. elementary E. intuitive

多选题Seeking to ______ what people view and read by determining what art and literature should be available, censorship laws directly ______ free expression.

多选题Diego Velazquez, Francisco de Goya, and El Greco, three of the most distinctive and influential artists in Spain"s history, together form the great ______ of Spanish painting.

多选题Jessica"s smile ______ her sorrow, hiding her feelings from everyone except those who knew her best.