FIB Practice Set 14
Question 1: Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipper was as little subject to the of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by it’s ____before he acted.| rewards..chastisement | |
| balm..eloquence | |
| reproaches..promptings | |
| ridicule..allure | |
| qualms..atonement |
Question 2: Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of child¬hood indirectly: he ____childhood processes from adult
| reconstructed..memory | |
| condoned..experience | |
| incorporated..behavior | |
| released..monotony | |
| inferred..anticipation |
Question 3: While she initially suffered the fate of many pio¬neers—the incomprehension of her colleagues ______octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to ____the triumph of her once scientific theories.
| descry..innovative | |
| regret..insignificant | |
| perpetuate..tentative | |
| enjoy..authoritative | |
| savor..heterodox |
Question 4: Broadway audiences have become inured to ----¬and so --- to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
| sentimentality..reluctant | |
| condescension. _disinclined | |
| histrionics..unlikely | |
| cleverness..eager | |
| mediocrity..desperate |
Question 5: Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ____ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
| extrapolate | |
| transcribe | |
| complicate | |
| amplify | |
| manage |
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