多选题While the movie employs stock characterizations, admirers argue that it is ______ even if its depiction is ______.

多选题Anthropology was much more that ______ for the novelist Zora Neale Hurston: she studied at Barnard College with Franz Boas, who is often called the "Father of American Anthropology".

多选题No longer ______ by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual ______ for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism. A. sustained B. restricted C. hampered D. reasons E. substitutes F. justifications

多选题{{U}}When literary periods are defined on the basis of men's writing, women's writing must be forcibly assimilated into an irrelevant grid:{{/U}} a Renaissance that is not a renaissance for women, a Romantic period in which women played very little part, a modernism with which women conflict Simultaneously, the history of women's writing has been suppressed, leaving large, mysterious gaps in accounts of the development of various genres. Feminist criticism is beginning to correct this situation. Margaret Anne Doody, for example, suggests that during "the period between the death of Richardson and the appearance of the novels of Scott and Austen," which has "been regarded as a dead period," late-eighteenth-century women writers actually developed "the paradigm for women's fiction of the nineteenth century—something hardly less than the paradigm of the nineteenth-century novel itself." Feminist critics have also pointed out that the twentieth-century writer Virginia Woolf belonged to a tradition other than modernism and that this tradition surfaces in her work precisely where criticism has hitherto found obscurities, evasions, implausibilities, and imperfections. It can be inferred from the passage that the author views the division of literature into periods based on men's writing as an approach that A. makes distinctions among literary periods ambiguous. B. is appropriate for evaluating only premodern literature. C. was misunderstood until the advent of feminist criticism. D. provides a valuable basis from which feminist criticism has evolved. E. obscures women's contributions to literature.

多选题Grover Pease Osborne"s 1893 economics treatise was remarkably ______ since it foresaw that technological advances would increase the availability of natural resources.

多选题When acid rain attacks stone, it does not remain confined to the surface; instead, it ______ the stone.

多选题Readers of history often marvel that ______ events were triggered by actions that seemed ______ at the time.

多选题Gwen"s ambitious desert hike was impeded by the heat that sapped her strength and resolve, leaving her ______ and ______.

多选题Many economists believe that since resources are scarce and since human desires cannot all be ______, a method of ______ is needed.

多选题Evidence that the universe is expanding ______ our perception of the cosmos and thus caused a ______ in astronomical thinking.

多选题Costa Rican-born artist Jimenez Deredia works on a ______ scale: the sculptures he creates are truly immense.

多选题The term "dry cleaning" is something of a ______ since this process generally involves application of perchloroethylene, a liquid chemical.

多选题New York designer Anna Sui creates eclectic clothes that represent an ______ of playful, 1970"s funky styles fused with an edgy, urban sensibility.

多选题A swindler"s ______ is usually a gullible person who is unable to resist the swindler"s traps.

多选题Since other seabirds customarily nest in colonies on ocean cliffs and islands, the marbled murrelet"s ______ nesting in forests many miles from the sea must be considered ______.

多选题The actor"s reputation as a ______ public figure suffered after an embarrassing personal incident made him more ______ than illustrious.

多选题In an effort to ______ her writing, Lauren attempted to eliminate the ______ and make only points that were truly necessary.

多选题The 1973 Endangered Species Act made into legal policy the concept that endangered species of wildlife are precious as part of a natural ecosystem. The nearly unanimous passage of this act in the United States Congress, reflecting the rising national popularity of environmentalism, masked a bitter debate. Affected industries clung to the former wildlife policy of valuing individual species according to their economic usefulness. {{U}}They fought to minimize the law's impact by limiting definitions of key terms,{{/U}} but they lost on nearly every issue. The act defined "wildlife" as almost all kinds of animals—from large mammals to invertebrates—and plants. "Taking" wildlife was defined broadly as any action that threatened an endangered species; areas vital to a species' survival could be federally protected as "critical habitats". Though these definitions legislated strong environmentalist goals, political compromises made in the enforcement of the act were to determine just what economic interests would be set aside for the sake of ecological stabilization. It can be inferred from the passage that if business interests had won the debate on provisions of the 1973 Endangered Species Act, which of the following would have resulted? A. Environmentalist concepts would not have become widely popular. B. The definitions of key terms of the act would have been more restricted. C. Enforcement of the act would have been more difficult. D. The act would have had stronger support from Congressional leaders; E. The public would have boycotted the industries that had the greatest impact in defining the act.

多选题Long after the day"s catch had been brought ashore, the smell of fish still ______ the air.

多选题The route was not ______: it was mazelike, confusing, and difficult to follow.