FIB Practice Set 21
Question 1: The architects of New York's early skyscrapers, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, sought to legitimize the city's social strivings by ____ a history the city did not truly ____.| revealing.. deserve | |
| displaying..desire | |
| evoking..possess | |
| preserving..experience | |
| flouting..believe |
Question 2: Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one ____ among millions; yet each outcome can be ____ interpreted.
| coincidence..randomly | |
| relationship..predictably | |
| fact..readily | |
| happening..uniquely | |
| possibility..rationally |
Question 3: Although some of her fellow scientists ____the unorthodox laboratory methodology that others found innovative, unanimous praise greeted her experimental results: at once pioneering and ____.
| ignored..untrustworthy | |
| complimented..foreseeable | |
| welcomed.. mundane | |
| decried..unexceptionable | |
| attacked..inconclusive |
Question 4: Early critics of Emily Dickinson's poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such ____.
| Astonishment | |
| vexation | |
| allusion | |
| innocence | |
| cunning |
Question 5: This project is the first step in a long-range plan of research whose ____goal, still many years off, is the creation of a new prototype.
| cooperative | |
| reasoned | |
| original | |
| ultimate | |
| intentional |
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