FIB Practice Set 25

Question 1: French folktales almost always take place within the basic ____ that correspond to the ____ setting of peasant life: on the one hand, the household and village and on the other, the open road.

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	contexts..hierarchical
	structures..personal
	frameworks..dual
	chronologies..generic
	narratives.. ambivalent

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Question 2: Nurturing the Royal Ballet's artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to _____development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than _____it.

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	ensure..promoting
	inhibit..perpetuating
	undermine..resurrecting
	modify..appreciating
	supplement..confining

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Question 3: Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown problems, New Deal economic stratagems became _____as a result of bureaucratization, their flexi¬bility and adaptability destroyed by their transfor-mation into rigid policies.

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	politicized
	consolidated
	ossified
	ungovernable
	streamlined

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Question 4: Biologists _____ isolated oceanic islands like the Galapagos, because, in such small, laboratory-like settings,, the rich hurly-burly of continental plant and animal communities is reduced to a scientifically _____ complexity.

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	explore..diverse
	desert..manageable
	exploit..intimidating
	reject..intricate
	prize..tractable

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Question 5: The startling finding that variations in the rate of the Earth's rotation depend to an ____ degree on the weather has necessitated a complete _____ of the world's time-keeping methods.

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	unexpected..overhaul
	anticipated..recalibration
	indeterminate..rejection
	unobservable..review
	estimated..acceptance

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