A notorious ______, the critic struck readers as being more concerned with the ______ of his own literary performance than with the book being reviewed.

多项选择题Many important inventions are the result of ______; for example, Chinese alchemists accidentally discovered gunpowder while trying to create ______ that would make their emperor immortal.

多项选择题The ______ of new orders mean that enough work had arrived to keep everyone at the plant working overtime.