FIB Practice Set 11
Question 1: As long as nations cannot themselves accumulate enough physical power to dominate all others, they must depend on_________.| allies | |
| resources | |
| freedom | |
| education | |
| self-determination |
Question 2: We realized that John was still young and impressionable, but were nevertheless surprised at his _____
| naiveté | |
| obstinateness | |
| decisiveness | |
| ingeniousness | |
| resolve |
Question 3: Although Mount Saint Helens has been more ____ during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the coterminous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption ____ its violent nature.
| awe-inspiring...restrained | |
| gaseous...confirmed | |
| explosive...belied | |
| familiar...moderated | |
| volatile...suggested |
Question 4: Changes of fashion and public taste are often ___ and resistant to analysis, and yet they are among the most ____gauges of the state of the public's collective consciousness.
| transparent...useful | |
| ephemeral...sensitive | |
| faddish...underutilized | |
| arbitrary...problematic | |
| permanent...reliable |
Question 5: The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possessions of great gifts _____the _____to abuse them.
| negates…temptation | |
| controls...resolution | |
| engenders…propensity | |
| tempers...proclivity | |
| obviates...inclination |
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