There seems to be no ______ the reading public's thirst for books about the 1960s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ______ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.

FBI

The priest made the ______ of the cross when he entered the church.

Alxender Woollcott's flamboyant personality combined sharpness of wit with sentimentality.

The legislative filibuster is a parliamentary tactic designed to delay or prevent action by the majority.

think tank

Linda was ______ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.

中国人民银行

Walt Disney's board is stepping up plans to find a new ruler to save the Magic Kingdom and fight off a $54 billion hostile ______ from Comcast, the US cable giant.

According to psychologists, a person's attention is attracted ______ by the intensity of different signals as by their context: significance and information content.

Government watchdog

I know he failed his last test, but really he's ______ stupid.

One model is a high-fashion show wore a hat so that it had to be supported with four poles carried by four attendants.

Forewarned is forearmed

Never _______ anything more important before.

The ______ of smoking among women, formerly negligible, has grown to such a degree that lung cancer has become the chief causer of cancer-related deaths among women.

Author Katherine Sherwood Mcdowell had a knack for converting almost every experience into marketable prose.

His story of rescuing ten drowning men totally by himself was ______.

Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke, one of the leading poets of his generation, was renowned as a romantic, unlike many of his contemporaries who　　　　　　　 1. ______ specialized in writing about the pointless of war.　　　　　　　　　　　　　2. ______ He was born in 1887, the son of a House Master at Rugby, where Rupert attended both the preparatory and main schools. When he went up to Cambridge in 1906 as a classics scholar, he fared badly　　　 3. ______ in his examinations as his interests laid in literature and theater.　　　　4. ______ During his time at Cambridge, his wit and good looks ensured his place as a member of the elite circle of intellectuals study there.　　　　 5. ______ After university he went to study German in Munich, falling in love with a sculptress there and working feverishly to begin his first　　　6. ______ volume of poetry, which produced a profit within a few weeks of its publication in 1911. With his early success, Brooke often felt unsettled as he　　　　　　　　　 7. ______ struggled to come to term with the underlying contradictions in his　　　　 8. ______ character. Many times his free spirits and bohemianism conflicted　　　　　 9. ______ directly with the innate Puritanism he inherited from his mother.　　　　　 10. ______ Because of these he would sometimes distance himself from his fellows and adopt an irrational suspicious attitude towards them.

I know he failed his last test, but really he's ______ stupid.