多选题Pablo Picasso was ______ youth; his extraordinary artistic talent was obvious at a very early age.

多选题Detractors attacked the study"s ______, claiming that researchers used lax procedures to gather and analyze data.

多选题Difficult working conditions that ranged from merely ______ to extremely intimidating were the norm for jazz performer Billie Holiday.

多选题A mysterious phenomenon is the ability of over-water migrants to travel on course. Birds, bees, and other species can keep track of time without any sensory cues from the outside world, and such "biological clocks" clearly contribute to their "compass sense". For example, they can use the position of the Sun or stars, along with the time of day, to find north. But compass sense alone cannot explain how birds navigate the ocean: after a flock traveling east is blown far south by a storm, it will assume the proper northeasterly course to compensate. Perhaps, some scientists thought, migrants determine their {{U}}geographic position on Earth by celestial navigation{{/U}}, almost as human navigators use stars and planets, {{U}}but this would demand of the animals a fantastic map sense.{{/U}} Researchers now know that some species have a magnetic sense, which might allow migrants to determine their geographic location by detecting variations in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field. In maintaining that migrating animals would need "a fantastic map sense" to determine their geographic position by celestial navigation, the author intends to express A. admiration for the ability of the migrants. B. skepticism about celestial navigation as an explanation. C. certainty that the phenomenon of migration will remain mysterious. D. interest in a new method of accounting for over-water migration. E. surprise that animals apparently navigate in much the same way that human beings do.

多选题Cells in the parvo system can distinguish between two colors at any relative brightness of the two. Cells in the color-blind magno system, on the other hand, are analogous to a black-and-white photograph in the way they function: they signal. information about the brightness of surfaces but not about their colors. For any pair of colors there is a particular brightness ratio at which two colors, for example red and green, will appear as the same shade of gray in a black-and-white photograph, {{U}}hence any border between them will vanish.{{/U}} Similarly at some relative red-to-green brightness level, the red and green will appear identical to the magno system. The red and green are then called equiluminant. A border between two equiluminant colors has color contrast but no luminance contrast The author mentions a "black-and-white photograph" most probably in order to explain A. how the parvo system distinguishes between different shapes and colors. B. how the magno system uses luminosity to identify borders between objects. C. the mechanism that makes the magno system color-blind. D. why the magno system is capable of perceiving moving images. E. the brightness ratio at which colors become indistinguishable to the parvo system.

多选题The challenge facing public health officials is to ______ an outbreak of disease and then ______ that school-children are immunized.

多选题Scholars often fail to see that music played an important role in the preservation of African culture in the United States. They correctly note that slavery stripped some cultural elements from Black people—their political and economic systems—but they underestimate the significance of music in sustaining other African cultural values. {{U}}African music, unlike the music of some other cultures, was based on a total vision of life in which music was not an isolated social domain.{{/U}} In African culture music was pervasive, serving not only religion, but all phases of life, including birth, death, work, and play. The methods that a community devises to perpetuate itself come into being to preserve aspects of the cultural legacy that community perceives as essential. Music, like art in general, was so inextricably a part of African culture that it became a crucial means of preserving the culture during and after the dislocations of slavery. Which of the following statements concerning the function of African music can be inferred from the passage? A. It preserved cultural values because it was thoroughly integrated into the lives of the people. B. It was more important in the development of African religious life than in other areas of culture. C. It was developed in response to the loss of political and economic systems. D. Its pervasiveness in African culture hindered its effectiveness in minimizing the impact of slavery. E. Its isolation from the economic domains of life enabled it to survive the destructive impact of slavery.

多选题The spotted bowerbird has a ______ for amassing the bright shiny objects it needs for decorating its bower: it will enter houses to ______ cutlery, coins, thimbles, nails, screws, even car keys.

多选题Although strangers compliment the comedian on her work repeatedly, almost ______, she is always moved by such enthusiastic encouragement.

多选题In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ______ than a similar article intended for ______ use. A. coarsely B. creatively C. lavishly D. religious E. commercial F. everyday

多选题Predictably, detail-oriented workers are ______ keeping track of the myriad particulars of a situation.

多选题African American poet Lucille Clifton writes in a notably ______ style, achieving great impact in a few unadorned works.

多选题Vernal pools are among the most ______ of ponds: they form as a result of snowmelt and a high water table in winter, and then they ______ by late summer.

多选题Known for her ______, Miranda eagerly welcomes anyone into her home.

多选题Identifying Lusia Capetillo only with the early labor union movement in Puerto Rico ______ the ______ nature of her career: she also worked in Florida, New York, and Cuba.

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 6-10, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. Questions 6-10 are based on the following passage. There can be no doubt that the emer- gence of the Negro writer in the post-war period stemmed, in part, from the fact thatLive he was inclined to exploit the opportunity to (5) write about himself. It was more than that, however. The movement that has variously been called the "Harlem Renaissance," the "Blank Renaissance," and the "New Negro Movement" was essentially a part of the (10) growing interest of American literary circles in the immediate and pressing social and economic problems. This growing interest coincided with two developments in Negro life that fostered the growth of the New (15) Negro Movement. These two factors, the keener realization of injustice and the improvement of the capacity for expression, produced a crop of Negro writers who con- stituted the "Harlem Renaissance." (20) The literature of the Harlem Renaissance was, for the most part, the work of a race- conscious group. Through poetry, prose, and song, the writers cried out against social and economic wrongs. They protested against (25) segregation and lynching. They demanded higher wages, shorter hours, and better con- ditions of work. They stood for full social equality and first-class citizenship. The new vision of social and economic freedom that (30) they had did not force them to embrace the several foreign ideologies that sought to sink their roots in some American groups during the period. The writers of the Harlem Renaissance, (35) bitter and cynical as some of them were, gave little attention to the propaganda of the socialists and communists. The editors of the Messenger ventured the opinion that the New Negro was the "product of the same world- (40) wide forces that have brought into being the great liberal and radical movements that are now seizing the reins of power in all the civi- lized countries of the world." Such forces may have produced the New Negro, but the (45) more articulate of the group did not resort to advocating the type of political action that would have subverted American constitu- tional government. Indeed, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance were not so much (50) revolting against the system as they were protesting its inefficient operation. In this approach they proved as characteristically American as any writers of the period.

多选题A certain additive put in gasoline to reduce air pollution is actually ______ groundwater, a finding that shows that even the most well-intentioned fixes can sometimes ______.

多选题Although Johnson ______ great enthusiasm for his employees project, in reality his interest in the project was so ______ as to be almost non-existent. A. generated B. demanded C. feigned D. preemptive E. redundant F. perfunctory

多选题The success of Notes of a Native Son ______ author James Baldwin as one of the most ______ essayists of his time.

多选题Although some critics maintain that his latest book can be situated in a(n) ______ genre, it draws liberally on several different genres and so can rightly be termed ______.