多选题In 1909, the first significant strike of working women was ______ by garment workers in New York to ______ low wages and long working hours.

多选题Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible ______: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing. A. sincerity B. efficiency C. virtuosity D. rapidity E. energy

多选题The depiction of the ______ wolf is largely a misconception; wolves are ______ creatures that prefer to run in packs.

多选题While serving as editor of the Anchorage Daily News, Katherine Fanning significantly increased the newspaper"s ______, marking it Alaska"s ______ paper.

多选题It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever ______ others, in the end, all his ______ has only worked against him. A. consigning B. relegating C. condemning D. self-adulation E. self-sacrifice F. self-analysis

多选题When theories formerly considered to be ______ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ______. A. disinterested B. callous C. verifiable D. imperatives E. errors F. constructions

多选题Rebecca knew that to finish her project she must overcome her tendency toward ______ and learn to make up her mind.

多选题May Sarton had a ______ career: it ______ from 1929, when Poetry magazine published her early sonnets, to 1994, when her last collection of poems came out.

多选题Because they make up just a small percent of all objects that fall to Earth, carbonaceous meteorites are considered ______.

多选题Proponents of different jazz styles have always argued that their predecessors' musical style did not include essential characteristics that define jazz as jazz. Thus, 1940's swing was belittled by beboppers of the 1950's, who were themselves attacked by free jazzers of the 1960's. The neoboppers of the 1980's and 1990's attacked almost everybody else. The titanic figure of Black saxophonist John Coltrane {{U}}has complicated the arguments made by proponents of styles from bebop through neobop because in his own musical journey he drew from all those styles.{{/U}} His influence on all types of jazz was immeasurable. At the height of his popularity, Coltrane largely abandoned playing bebop, the style that had brought him fame, to explore the outer reaches of jazz. Coltrane himself probably believed that the only essential characteristic of jazz was improvisation, the one constant in his journey from bebop to open-ended improvisations on modal, Indian, and African melodies. On the other hand, this dogged student and prodigious technician—who insisted on spending hours each day practicing scales from theory books—was never able to jettison completely the influence of bebop, with its fast and elaborate chains of notes and ornaments on melody. Two stylistic characteristics shaped the way Coltrane played the tenor saxophone, he favored playing fast runs of notes built on a melody and depended on heavy, regularly accented beats. The first led Coltrane to "sheets of sound", where he raced faster and faster, pile-driving notes into each other to suggest stacked harmonies. The second meant that his sense of rhythm was almost as close to rock as to bebop. Three recordings illustrate Coltrane's energizing explorations. Recording Kind of Blue with Miles Davis, Coltrane found himself outside bop, exploring modal melodies. Here he played surging, lengthy solos built largely around repeated motifs—an organizing principle unlike that of free jazz saxophone player Ornette Coleman, who modulated or altered melodies in his solos. On Giant Steps, Coltrane debuted as leader, introducing his own compositions. Here the sheets of sound, downbeat accents, repetitions, and great speed are part of each solo, and the variety of the shapes of his phrases is unique. Coltrane's searching explorations produced solid achievement. My Favorite Things was another kind of watershed. Here Coltrane played the soprano saxophone, an instrument seldom used by jazz musicians. Musically, the results were astounding. With the soprano's piping sound, ideas that had sounded dark and brooding acquired a feeling of giddy fantasy. When Coltrane began recording for the Impulse! label, he was still searching. His music became raucous, physical. His influence on rockers was enormous, including Jimi Hendrix, the rock guitarist, who, following Coltrane, raised the extended guitar solo using repeated motifs to a kind of rock art form. According to the passage, John Coltrane did all of the following during his career EXCEPT: A. improvise on melodies from a number of different cultures. B. perform as leader as well as soloist. C. spend time improving his technical skills. D. experiment with the sounds of various instruments. E. eliminate the influence of bebop on his own music.

多选题To call Carlos ______ would be to mistake his natural self-confidence and youthful high spirits for willful defiance.

多选题Famous among job seekers for its ______, the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses and such ______ as low-interest home mortgages and company cars. A. magnanimity B. largesse C. altruism D. reparations E. appropriation F. perquisites

多选题Despite his brilliant career, Gerald was plagued by doubts and could not ______ his feeling of ______.

多选题Common garlic has ______ properties; during the First World War British medics saved thousands of lives by wrapping wounds with garlic-soaked bandages.

多选题Basset hounds tend to be ______ breed of dog: most are not easily aroused into action.

多选题Many subatomic nuclear particles are ______ and nearly ______: they are hard to track as well as to detect.

多选题The archaeologist"s examination of the evidence was remarkably careful and thorough: indeed, it was nothing short of ______.

多选题Many private universities depend heavily on ______, the wealthy individuals who support them with gifts and bequests.

多选题The company was so ______, so unwilling to change, that it lost any ability to compete in a ______ market.

多选题By ______ many aspects of natural river ecosystems, some dams cause serious harm, producing ______ effects on water, land, wildlife, and even the atmosphere.