多选题Many paintings of the American Southwest convey a feeling of isolation and loneliness that mirrors the ______ landscape they depict.

多选题 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. Questions 1-6

多选题In considering possible explanations for this finding, the researchers dismissed demographic bias because older individuals were not overrepresented in the fossil samples. They rejected preservational bias because a total absence of breakage in two extinct species demonstrated that the fractures were not the result of abrasion within the pits. They ruled out local bias because breakage data obtained from other Pleistocene sites were similar to the La Brea data. {{U}}The explanation they consider most plausible is behavioral differences between extinct and present-day carnivores—in particular, more contact between the teeth of predators and the bones of prey due to more thorough consumption of carcasses by the extinct species.{{/U}} Such thorough carcass consumption implies to the researchers either that prey availability was low, at least seasonally, or that there was intense competition over kills and a high rate of carcass theft due to relatively high predator densities. According to the passage, the researchers believes that the high frequency of tooth breakage in carnivores found at La Brea was caused primarily by A. the aging process in individual carnivores. B. contact between the fossils in the pits. C. poor preservation of the fossils after they were removed from the pits. D. the impact of carnivores' teeth against the bones of their prey E. the impact of carnivores' teeth against the bones of other carnivores during fights.

多选题Yellow jackets are not mere ________, preprogrammed mechanisms; rather, these insects change behavioral patterns in response to their experiences.

多选题Many critics of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights see its second part as a counterpoint that comments on, if it does not reverse, the lust part, where a "romantic" reading receives more confirmation. Seeing the two parts as a whole is encouraged by the novel's sophisticated structure, revealed in its complex use of narrators and time shills. Granted that the presence of these elements need not argue an authorial awareness of novelistic construction comparable to that of Henry James, their presence does encourage attempts to unify the novel's heterogeneous parts. However, any interpretation that seeks to unify all of the novel's diverse elements is bound to be somewhat unconvincing. This is not because such an interpretation necessarily stiffens into a thesis (although rigidity in any interpretation of this or of any novel is always a danger), but because Wuthering Heights has recalcitrant elements of undeniable power that, ultimately, resist inclusion in an all-encompassing interpretation. In this respect, Wuthering Heights shares a feature of Hamlet. According to the passage, which of the following is a true statement about the first and second parts of Wuthering Heights? A. The second part has received more attention from critics. B. The second part has little relation to the first part. C. The second part annuls the force of the first part. D. The second part provides less substantiation for a "romantic" reading. E. The second part is better because it is more realistic.

多选题A scientist should not automatically reject folkways that might at first seem silly or superstitious; scientific qualifications are not a license for ______, nor do they ______ prejudice or bias.

多选题Certain plant seeds are able to remain ______ for years, appearing lifeless when in fact they are merely inactive.

多选题Ernest Gaines"s A Lesson Before Dying is ______ of rural Louisiana: the writing is so evocative that the Southern atmosphere seems almost to ______ from the book"s pages.

多选题All copies of Verna Hart"s poster commemorating the 1992 Charlotte Jazz Festival were sold in a few hours, an unmistakable ______ of the ______ of this artist"s work.

多选题Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of ______, is the first step in learning to be creative. A. elegance B. resolution C. goodness D. originality E. sympathy F. imagination

多选题Bubble gum is not a topic usually treated seriously, so it is appropriate that this new book tracing the cultured history of bubble gum has a ______ tone.

多选题Although Eudora Welty and William Faulkner wrote in distinctively different styles, ______ between the two is ______ because they both lived in and wrote about Mississippi.

多选题The border between the two properties, never ______ by legal means, had long been the subject of ______ between the antagonistic neighbors.

多选题The crude animated effects ______ projected images from seventeenth-century lantern slides have now been recognized as ______ of modern film animation.

多选题Maxwell Perkins is considered a particularly ______ editor because he was among the first to ______ the extraordinary literary talent of Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe.

多选题The highly detailed ______ of the ship looked identical to the actual ship in all but size.

多选题One requirement of timeless art is that it deepen and ______ our awareness, not that it merely confirm what we already know.

多选题The only ______ on the flat desert landscape was the occasional rock outcrop jutting skyward.

多选题The anthropology professor hoped that his latest book would appeal to popular as well as to ______ readers, thereby earning him ______ in both realms.

多选题Because insect communities serve as a sort of barometer, ______ conditions in their ______, an entomologist"s analysis of the insect species in a handful of soil can reveal much about the ecosystem.