多选题Newspaper advertisers feel their messages are more believable and ______ when they are printed next to news reports: hence, advertising charges are higher for such ______.

多选题The modest acceptance speech of the Academy Award-winning actress revealed a ______ that contrasted with her uninhibited screen performances.

多选题Some medieval European painters saw iniquity all around them: they felt that the visible world was ______ sin.

多选题In the United States, social activists who strongly ______ a particular law can attempt to obtain a constitutional amendment to ______ it.

多选题The mayor"s reelection by an overwhelming majority was not so much an endorsement of his administration"s ______ as it was a ______ of his opponent"s extreme views.

多选题As Sam"s behavior was a flagrant violation of basic civility, Kendra was right to call it ______.

多选题The English monarch Elizabeth I may have wanted the miniature portraits of herself and her disgraced mother kept secret, since they were ______ her ring.

多选题The correlation between carbon dioxide and temperature throughout the Vostok record is consistent and predictable. The absolute temperature changes, however, are from 5 to 14 times greater than would be expected on the basis of carbon dioxide's own ability to absorb infrared radiation, or radiant heat. {{U}}This reaction suggests that, quite aside from changes in heat-trapping gases, commonly known as greenhouse gases, certain positive feedbacks are also amplifying the temperature change.{{/U}} Such feedbacks might involve ice on land and sea, clouds, or water vapor, which also absorb radiant heat. The author mentions "certain positive feedbacks" in order to indicate that A. increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is responsible for global temperature increase. B. some climate simulation models have produced useful information. C. greenhouse gases alone do not account for global temperature increase. D. variables that benefit life are causing global temperature to increase. E. beneficial substances that are not heat-trapping gases and that contribute to global temperature increase have been found in the Vostok ice core.

多选题Because her new job required daily attendance, Joan was obliged to ______ her formerly ______ lifestyle as a traveling musician.

多选题Castillo"s poetry has generated only enthusiastic response: praise from the general public and ______ from the major critics.

多选题The company manager was known for both his ______ and his ______: he lied frequently, but did so with amazing flair.

多选题Representing a round world on a flat surface is impossible without some ______: the Mercator projection may shows Greenland as over ten times larger than Mexico, a country in fact only slightly smaller than Greenland.

多选题The Joint Chiefs of Staff were not officially assembled until after World War II, but they ______ from an earlier attempt by Theodore Roosevelt to create a board that would work and plan jointly across the armed forces.

多选题Rodolfo Gonzales was once described as ______ in body and mind because of the flexibility and grace apparent in both his boxing and his writing of poetry and plays.

多选题Colonial South Carolina was characterized by cultural ______: Europeans, Africans and Native Americans each absorbed some customs of the other groups.

多选题The musical Scrambled Feir ______ the ______ of the theatrical world, poking fun at actors, directors, play wrights, and audiences alike.

多选题Remelting old metal cans rather than making primary aluminum from bauxite ore shipped from overseas saves producers millions of dollars in ______ and production costs. A. distribution B. salvage C. storage D. procurement E. research

多选题 Questions 18-20 are based on the following passage. At night, schools of prey and predators are almost always spectacularly illuminated by the bioluminescence produced by the micro- Line scopic and larger plankton. The reason for (5) the ubiquitous production of light by the microorganisms of the sea remains obscure, and suggested explanations are controversial. It has been suggested that light is a kind of inadvertent by-product of life in transparent (10) organisms. It has also been hypothesized that the emission of light on disturbance is advantageous to the plankton in making the predators of the plankton conspicuous to their predators! Unquestionably, it does act (15) this way. Indeed, some fisheries base the detection of their prey on the biolumines- cence that the fish excite. It is difficult, how- ever, to defend the thesis that this effect was the direct factor in the original development (20) of bioluminescence, since the effect was of no advantage to the individual microorgan- ism that first developed it. Perhaps the lumi- nescence of a microorganism also discourages attack by light-avoiding predators and is of (25) initial survival benefit to the individual. As it then becomes general in the population, the effect of revealing plankton predators to their predators would also become important.

多选题While traveling near the Sun, the comet Hale-Bopp produced a ______ amount of dust, much more than the comets Halley or Hyakutake.

多选题Although Victor Turner's writings have proved fruitful for fields beyond anthropology, his definition of ritual is overly restrictive. Ritual, he says, is "prescribed formal behavior for occasions not given over to technological routine, having reference to beliefs in mystical beings or powers." "Technological routine" refers to the means by which a social group provides for its material needs. Turner's differentiating ritual from technology helps us recognize that festivals and celebrations {{U}}may have little purpose other than play, but it obscures the practical aims,{{/U}} such as making crops grow or healing patients, of other rituals. Further, Turner's definition implies a necessary relationship between ritual and mystical beliefs. However, not all rituals are religious; some religions have no reference to mystical beings; and individuals may be required only to participate in, not necessarily believe in, a ritual. Turner's assumption that ritual behavior follows belief thus limits the usefulness of his definition in studying ritual across cultures. According to the passage, which of the following does Turner exclude from his conception of ritual? A. Behavior based on beliefs. B. Behavior based on formal rules. C. Celebrations whose purpose is play. D. Routines directed toward practical ends. E. Festivals honoring supernatural beings.