多选题City leaders practiced ______ out of respect for taxpayers, ______ the number of new public projects.

多选题Noting the murder victim's flaccid musculature and pearlike figure, she deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some ______ occupation. A. treacherous B. prestigious C. ill-paying D. illegitimate E. sedentary

多选题During the Hart dynasty, trade expansion to distant Persia allowed the Chinese to ______ their ______ of other cultures.

多选题Joe claimed always to be ______ in a crisis, but Kameko insisted that he was, on the contrary, easily ______.

多选题Residents of the secluded island fear that ______ commercial development will ______ their quiet way of life.

多选题Irene is ______ compliments, feeling that they are often nothing but empty flattery.

多选题After years of taking art history courses and visiting museums, Ed considered himself a true ______ of fine art.

多选题Because the photographer believed that wild animals should be ______ only in their various natural surroundings, she ______ often in her career.

多选题Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the ______ of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its ______ before he acted. A. rewards B. balm C. reproaches D. chastisement E. promptings F. atonement

多选题Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ______; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ______ of natural beauty and human glory. A. cheerful B. luxuriant C. collusion D. transitoriness E. taciturnity F. frivolity

多选题Laila performed her tasks at the office with ______, completing all her projects in record time.

多选题Sally was a lighthearted and even-tempered woman: she had none of her sister"s ______.

多选题The staff complained that management was ______, focusing on short-term profits while disregarding the long-term welfare of the corporation.

多选题Popular interest in music performed by folk singer Jean Ritchie acted as a ______ because it ______ a wider interest in the music of Ritchie"s native Kentucky.

多选题Despite her reputation for being ______ and ______, the musician in fact was neither reserved nor thin-skinned.

多选题Hank Morgan, the hero of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, is a nineteenth-century master mechanic who mysteriously awakening in sixth-century Britain, launches what he hopes will be a peaceful revolution to transform Arthurian Britain into an industrialized modem democracy. The novel, written as a spoof of Thomas Malory's Morted' Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies. {{U}}None of these{{/U}} translations to screen and stage, however, {{U}}dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee,{{/U}} which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan's three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babblings about drawbridges and battlements. {{U}}The American public, although enjoying Twain's humor, evidently rejected his cynicism{{/U}} about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress. The author uses the examples of "three upbeat movies and two musical comedies" primarily in order to demonstrate that A. well-written novels like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, regardless of their tone or theme, can be translated to the stage and screen. B. the American public has traditionally been more interested in watching plays and movies than in reading novels like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. C. Twain's overall message in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one that had a profound impact on the American public. D. Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has been a more popular version of the Arthurian legends than has Malory's Morted' Arthur. E. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has been accepted as an enjoyable and humorous tale in versions that have omitted the anarchy at the novel's conclusion.

多选题Concrete is ______ of many materials, a composite of rocks, pebbles, sand, and cement.

多选题Once the principal ______ that the fire alarm had been set off by accident, she apologized to the suspected students and announced that they had been ______.

多选题The ______ plots of Agatha Christie"s detective stories reflect the complexities hidden beneath the simple appearances of English village life.

多选题Although the revelation that one of the contestants was a friend left the judge open to charges of lack of ______, the judge remained adamant in her assertion that acquaintance did not necessarily imply ______. A. detachment B. exoneration C. prejudice D. tolerance E. foreknowledge F. partiality