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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