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1、1. Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohns _should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be _ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be argued that his _ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work, many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his
2、 remaining twenty-six years.2. Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow-an intertribal affair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native American culture-serves to (i) _ the very culture it presumably aims to (ii) _. They argue an overarching cultural narrativ
3、e emerges, one that (iii)_ the narrative of any one tribe.3. To the senior manager, unsolicited opinions, even if the views expressed did not necessarily (i) _ his own views, were (ii)_ ; thus, employees had learned to be (iii)_ lest they no longer found themselves in his good graces.4. That the com
4、edian was so _ as to be unable to _ the effect she had on others was not lost on her audience, who quickly stood up to leave, hoping their action would at last _.5. That we can, from a piece of art, (i)_ the unconscious urges of the artisturges that remain hidden even from the artist himselfwill rem
5、ain a(n) (ii)_ issue, as it is one (iii)_ empirical analysis: we can never definitively know what is submerged deep inside the artists psyche, let alone reconcile any such revelations with the artists work.6. Special effects in movies are (i)_, in that unlike the story, whose permutations seem to ha
6、ve long ago been (ii)_, they continue to evolve: if we were magically beamed years into the future (of course that story has been told numerous times before), the special effects would (iii)_; the story would be awfully familiar.7. Whether repression has come from the church or from a totalitarian s
7、tate, science has always been an imperiled endeavor, but to claim that it will only flourish in times of libertarian rule is not a(n) _ conclusion. A(n) _ government is not the same as one that actively takes an interest in funding science and the latter may well be, in some respects, _.8. For chari
8、ties operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i) _ into mere (ii) _, vapid slogans rear their heads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such high-mindedness had initially sought to (iii) _.9. The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a _ one. Today, ar
9、tists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that no longer warrants the trite tag “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope is pushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head or furrows the collective brow thinking that this time the “artists” have _. That very
10、 same admixture of contempt and confusion, however, was not unknown in Michelangelos day; only what was considered blasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered _.10. Perkins wit, surprisingly _ by the prudishness of his time, may not have been nearly as _ had he lived in an
11、era not so prone to _.11. It is telling that a politician long adept at inhabiting any role that will serve his immediate purpose has been able to (i) _ a disgruntled electorate, an outcome that perhaps speaks more to the electorates (ii) _ nature than it does to his ability to be (iii) _.12. She ga
12、ve him a(n) (i)_ look that was not so much (ii)_ as it was (iii)_.13. For an artist of such circumscribed talent, Mario was given (i)_ attention, many connoisseurs (ii)_ over works that warranted nothing more than a(n) (iii)_ glance.14. The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a re
13、liable measure of (i)_. Some (ii)_ drivers, in fact, prove that in certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to have availed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-the-minute information on the presence of highway patrolmengreater excess speed, in thes
14、e instances, simply implies a greater (iii)_.15. Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets of scientific rationalism, does not (i)_ the Italian astronomer, but rather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purported exemplar of rational thinkin
15、g, and yet is (ii)_, then the history of science cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carrying out their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, in faithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years, historiographers would be (iii)_ to not include the human foibles that were part of even the most ostensibly Apol
