FIB Practice Set 23

Question 1: Ethnologists are convinced that many animals survive through learning ___but learning that is ____ their genetic programming, learning as thoroughly ____as the most instinctive of behavioral responses.

	superseded by..primitive
	compatible with..transient
	complementary to..familiar
	derived from..inventive
	dictated by. -.stereotyped

Question 2: Though some of the information the author reveals about Russian life might surprise Americans, her major themes are ____enough.

	familiar
	thorough
	vital
	original
	Interesting

Question 3: In the early twentieth century, the discovery of radium ____ the popular imagination; not only was its discoverer, Marie Curie, idolized, but its market value ___that of the rarest gemstone.

	stormed..sank to
	horrified..approached
	taxed..was equal to
	enflamed..exceeded
	escaped..was comparable to

Question 4: The president's secretary and his chief aide adored him, and both wrote obsessively _____personal memoirs about him; unfortunately, however, ____does not make for true intimacy.

	fatuous..frankness
	devoted..idolatry
	garrulous..confidentiality
	candid..discretion
	rancorous..criticism

Question 5: Despite claims that his philosophy can be traced to ____ source, the philosophy in fact draws liberally on several traditions and methodologies and so could justifiably be termed _____.