多选题Unlike her predecessor"s rambling prose, Susan Hubel"s reports were both ______ and comprehensive.

多选题Opponents of the research institute label it ______ anachronism: its scholars, they allege, have ______ rivaling those of pre-Revolutionary French nobility.

多选题It is not wise to attempt to ______ aggressive groups: the more concessions you make, the more they will demand.

多选题While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers—the incomprehension of her colleagues—octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to ______ the triumph of her once ______ scientific theories. A. decry B. regret C. savor D. heterodox E. authoritative F. tentative

多选题My brother is a loner who showers his few friends with affection; thus he is both ______ and ______.

多选题Metis, the innermost ______ of Jupiter, completes a full revolution around this giant planet every seven hours.

多选题In 1918 Yellowstone National Park had only 25 bison, but the population has since ______ to more than 2,000.

多选题Readers who delight in rarefied words cannot help but be ______ by the esoteric ______ Annie Dillard expertly wields in her novel The Maytrees.

多选题 Questions 1-6 (Sentence Equivalent) 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.

多选题In frigid regions a layer of permafrost under the soil surface prevents water from sinking deep into the soil, and so the water ______ the land, helping to create bog and ______ conditions.

多选题The magician"s ______ astonished us; her deft performance proved the old saying that the hand is quicker than the eye.

多选题The professor commented to other faculty members that Sheila seemed temperamentally suited to the study of logic, given her ______ for ______ intricate arguments.

多选题Some fans feel that sports events are ______ only when the competitors are of equal ability, making the outcome of the game ______.

多选题The colors and patterns on butterflies" wings may seem merely ______, but they are actually ______ the survival of these insects, enabling them to attract mates and to hide from predators.

多选题Edmund White is a(n) ______ author: he has written novels, essays, short stories, a travel book, and a biography.

多选题Students already confused by difficult college-admission procedures will be further ______ by the university"s complex new online process.

多选题Foucault's rejection of the concept of continuity in Western thought, though radical, was not unique; he had ______ in the United States who, without knowledge of his work, developed parallel ideas. A. critics B. counterparts C. disciples D. readers E. publishers

多选题Her dislike of ______ made her regard people who tried to win her approval through praise as ______.

多选题Films and paintings ______ a similar challenge: to ______ the viewer"s eye that a two-dimensional surface actually has depth.

多选题 Directions: The next questions are based on the content of the following passage. Read the passage and then determine the best answer choice for each question. Base your choice on what this passage states directly or implies, not on any information you may have gained elsewhere. For each of Questions 7-11, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. Questions 7-9 are based on the following passage. James's first novels used conventional nar- rative techniques: explicit characterization, action that related events in distinctly phasedLine sequences, settings firmly outlined and (5) specifically described. But this method grad- ually gave way to a subtler, more deliberate, more diffuse style of accumulation of minutely discriminated details whose total significance the reader can grasp only by (10) constant attention and sensitive inference. His later novels play down scenes of abrupt and prominent action, and do not so much offer a succession of sharp shocks as slow piecemeal additions of perception. The cur- (15) tain is not suddenly drawn back from shrouded things, but is slowly moved away. Such a technique is suited to James's essential subject, which is not human action itself but the states of mind that produce and are pro- (20) duced by human actions and interactions. James was less interested in what characters do, than in the moral and psychological antecedents, realizations, and consequences which attend their doings. This is why he (25) more often speaks of "cases" than of actions. His stories, therefore, grow more and more lengthy while the actions they relate grow simpler and less visible; not because they are crammed with adventitious and secondary (30) events, digressive relief, or supernumerary characters, as overstuffed novels of action are; but because he presents in such exhaus- tive detail every nuance of his situation. Commonly the interest of a novel is in the (35) variety and excitement of visible actions building up to a climactic event which will settle the outward destinies of characters with storybook promise of permanence. A James novel, however, possesses its character- (40) istic interest in carrying the reader through a rich analysis of the mental adjustments of characters to the realities of their personal situations as they are slowly revealed to them through exploration and chance discovery.