FIB Practice Set 19
Question 1: The spellings of many Old English words have been ___ in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed.| preserved | |
| Shortened | |
| preempted | |
| revised | |
| improved |
Question 2: The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly ____ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.
| exploited | |
| quantifiable | |
| controversial | |
| inexhaustible | |
| remarkable |
Question 3: For centuries animals have been used as ____ for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans.
| benefactors | |
| companions | |
| examples | |
| precedents | |
| surrogates |
Question 4: Social tensions among adult factions can be ___ by politics, but adolescents and children have no such____ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
| intensified..attitude | |
| complicated..relief | |
| frustrated..justification | |
| adjusted..mechanism . | |
| revealed..opportunity |
Question 5: The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ____between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are ____ to the maintenance of community.
| a compromise.. inimical | |
| an interdependence..subsidiary | |
| a counterpoint.. incidental | |
| an equivalence.. prerequisite | |
| a reciprocity.. conducive |
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