Sometimes the ceiling _______ to open and let down a second course of meats, with showers of flowers and perfumed waters, while ropedancers performed over the heads of the company.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to conventions of standard English?
One of the greatest minds of the century _______ a ray of light on this gloomy picture by tracing the origin of woman’s slavery to the same principle of selfishness and love of power in man that has thus dominated all weaker nations and classes.
The slavish instinct of an oppressed class has led it to toil patiently through the ages, _______ all and asking little, cheerfully sharing with man all perils and privations by land and sea that husband and sons might attain.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of standard English?
It is so often asserted that as woman has always been man’s slave—subject—inferior—dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight _______ the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.
How significant are the levels of THg in the fish populations of our national parks? In a recent study, variations in site-specific fish THg concentrations within each park _______ that more intensive sampling will be required in some parks to characterize more accuratelyTHg contamination levels.
In addition to educating people through writing about birds, ornithologists share their knowledge by teaching college courses. But education is not limited to teaching college students. Outreach activities _______ giving talks and making presentations to various groups and organizations.
Those tribes or nations having a well-developed social order, with government, laws, and other fixed social customs are said to be civilized, while those peoples without these characters are assumed to be uncivilized. It may also be considered in a somewhat different sense, when the arts, industries, sciences, and habits of life are stimulated civilization _______ determined by the degree in which these are developed.
The art masters of ancient Egypt never troubled themselves to tabulate the proportions of the human body or _______ them to a system.
Nothing in what remains to us of Egyptian works _______ the belief that they ever possessed a canon based on the length of the human finger or foot.
Theirs was a teaching of routine and not of theory. Models executed by the master _______ over and over again by his pupils until they could reproduce them with absolute exactness.
“It may seem like I’m asking a bunch of unrelated questions,” he says, “but I’m trying to find the nature of the complaint.” Based on information gathered from the form and the interview, Jon _______ treatment.
When the window is finished, these pieces are put together like a puzzle and joined by grooved strips of lead soldered at the joints, just as any lattice window is put together; but before this _______ done, the details of the design—features, folds of drapery, patterns, and soon—are painted on the glass in an opaque brownish enamel make of iron oxide.
North America and western Europe _______ near universal literacy rates.
The socioeconomic impact of toxoplasmosis on human suffering and the cost of care of sick children, especially those with intellectual disability and blindness, _______ enormous in these countries today.
Prior to embarking on doctoral studies, many students already _______ several years of formal study in their chosen field.