According to research, the experience of an ____ culture endows us with a valuable _____, making it easier to realize that even a ____ thing can have ____meanings.

Instead this ____ of creativity appears to be a ____ ____ of difference: we need to change cultures, to experience the disorienting ____ of human traditions.

For each debate group, two students select the affirmative position, two select the negative, and the fifth serves as ____.

A. investor
B. elevator
C. conqueror
D. moderator

In these companies, enlightened management has begun to treat workers as assets to be cultivated, rather than merely costs to be ____.

A. maximized
B. minimized
C. publicized
D. modernized

In September 1944 he was able to return to his academic duties, but soon after the war ended he ____ a serious illness and did relatively little research thereafter.

A. shared in
B. lived on
C. was stricken by
D. taken captive

At the conclusion of the opera, the audience rose as one with thunderous applause, and the actors ________

A. took it with a bow
B. watch for
C. throw caution to the wind
D. smuggle into

The athlete had been ____ long legs and a persistent temperament so he was very successful.

A. endowed to
B. traded for
C. trading for
D. endowed with

I would love to have kids. I would ____ an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital.

A. embark on
B. turn down
C. turn in
D. turn on

In general, the main objective of scientists is to understand the world____

A. as they are
B. as they were
C. as it was
D. as it is

Since finishing high school I have ventured through various countries and been amazed by all the ____cultures scattered around the globe.

A. stubborn
B. diverse
C. cluster
D. positive