多选题Mary Somerville"s career was that of a true ______: she wrote on astronomy, mathematics, physics, and geography, among other subjects.

多选题Not wanting to speak ______, Julia ______ the urge to announce her scientific finding until she had double-checked the data.

多选题The experiment did not yield the decisive ______ that the scientist had hoped for: instead, the findings were only of ______ significance.

多选题The existence of environmental contamination is no longer a point of ______; government, industry, and the public agree that it is a serious problem.

多选题Selecting not to stay in subordinate positions in large firms, some attorneys ______, seeking more ______ and independence elsewhere.

多选题Although Johnson's and Smith's initial fascination with the fortunes of those jockeying for power in the law firm ______ after a few months, the two paid sufficient attention to determine who their lunch partners should be. A. revived B. emerged C. intensified D. flagged E. persisted F. declined

多选题Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) was a landmark in the depiction of female characters in Black American literature. Marshall avoided the oppressed and tragic heroine in conflict with White society that had been typical of the protest novels of the early twentieth century. Like her immediate predecessors, Zora Neale Hurston and Gwendolyn Brooks, she focused her novel on an ordinary Black woman's search for identity within the context of a Black community. But {{U}}Marshall extended the analysis of Black female characters begun by Hurston and Brooks by depicting her heroine's development in terms of the relationship between her Barbadian American parents,{{/U}} and by exploring how male and female roles were defined by their immigrant culture, which in turn was influenced by the materialism of White America. By placing characters within a wider cultural context, Marshall attacked racial and sexual stereotypes and paved the way for explorations of race, class, and gender in the novels of the 1970's. The author's description of the way in which Marshall depicts her heroine's development is most probably intended to: A. continue the discussion of similarities in the works of Brooks, Hurston, and Marshall. B. describe the specific racial and sexual stereotypes that Marshall attacked. C. contrast the characters in Marshall's novels with those in later works. D. show how Marshall extends the portrayal of character initiated by her predecessors. E. compare themes in Marshall's early work with themes in her later novels.

多选题Instead of taking notes during the interview, the journalist recorded the celebrity"s remarks on tape and ______ them.

多选题One critic asserts that modern urban architecture causes sensory deprivation because it fails to provide visual and tactile ______.

多选题An effective member of a debating team must focus clearly on the ______ issue and avoid ______ arguments.

多选题Government officials authorized ______ because they want to have a complete enumeration of the country"s population.

多选题A notorious ______, the critic struck readers as being more concerned with the ______ of his own literary performance than with the book being reviewed.

多选题Although usually warm and ______ in greeting friends, Lauren was too reserved ever to be truly ______.

多选题Perhaps the fact that many of these first studies considered only algae of a size that could be collected in a net (net phytoplankton), {{U}}a practice that overlooked the smaller phytoplankton (nannoplankton) that we now know grazers are most likely to feed on,{{/U}} led to a de-emphasis of the role of grazers in subsequent research. Increasingly, as in the individual studies of Lund, Round, and Reynolds, researchers began to stress the importance of environmental factors such as temperature, light, and water movements in controlling algal numbers. These environmental factors were amenable to field monitoring and to simulation in the laboratory. Grazing was believed to have some effect on algal numbers, especially after phytoplankton growth rates declined at the end of bloom periods, but grazing was considered a minor component of models that predicted algal population dynamics. It can be inferred from the passage that one way in which many of the early researchers on grazer control could have improved their data would have been to A. emphasize the effects of temperature, rather than of light, on phytoplankton. B. disregard nannoplankton in their analysis of phytoplankton numbers. C. collect phytoplankton of all sizes before analyzing the extent of phytoplankton concentration. D. recognize that phytoplankton other than net phytoplankton could be collected in a net. E. understand the crucial significance of net phytoplankton in the diet of zooplankton.

多选题The slogan "greed is good" epitomizes the controversial notion that ______ might actually be ______.

多选题Dr. Yuan headed a medical team that was highly ______, in that it represented multifarious specialties and varied experiences.

多选题Oil companies seeking permission to drill in Alaskan wildlife refuge areas argues that, for animals, the effects of previous drilling in comparable areas have been ______.

多选题While the official"s actions were widely denounced, they were nonetheless ______, fully within the boundaries of recognized laws.

多选题One of the characters in Milton Murayama"s novel is considered ______ because he deliberately defies an oppressive hierarchical society.

多选题In the early twentieth century, a ______ decimated American chestnut tree populations; relatively few of these stately trees now remain.