FIB Practice Set 24

Question 1: Du Bois' foreign trips were the highlight, not the ____, of his travels; he was habitually on the go across and around the United States.

	idiosyncrasy .
	result
	precursor
	culmination
	totality

Question 2: Business forecasts usually prove reasonably accurate when the assumption that the future will be much like the past is ___; in times of major ___ in the business environment, however, forecasts can be dangerously wrong.

	specified..discontinuities
	questioned.. surges
	contradicted..improvements
	entertained..risks
	satisfied..shifts

Question 3: It is almost always desirable to increase the yield of a crop if ____ increases are not also necessary in energy, labor, and other inputs of crop production.

	predetermined
	commensurate
	compatible
	measured
	equivocal

Question 4: Job failure means being fired from a job, being asked to resign, or leaving ____to protect yourself because you had very strong evidence that one of the first two was

	voluntarily..impending
	abruptly..significant
	knowingly..operative
	understandably..pertinent
	eventually. Intentional

Question 5: The tone of Jane Carlyle's letter is guarded, and her feelings are always ____ by the wit and pride that made _____plea for sympathy impossible for her.