If the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on, its watertight compartments might have saved it from ______ , but it swerved to avoid the iceberg, and in the collision so many compartments were opened to the sea that disaster was ______.

单项选择题The sugar dissolved in water ______; finally all that remained was an almost ______ residue on the bottom of the glass.

单项选择题Alec Guinness has few equals among Englishspeaking actors, and in his autobiography he reveals himself to be an uncommonly ______ prose stylist as well.