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.| contexts..hierarchical | |
| structures..personal | |
| frameworks..dual | |
| chronologies..generic | |
| narratives.. ambivalent |
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.
| ensure..promoting | |
| inhibit..perpetuating | |
| undermine..resurrecting | |
| modify..appreciating | |
| supplement..confining |
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.
| politicized | |
| consolidated | |
| ossified | |
| ungovernable | |
| streamlined |
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.
| explore..diverse | |
| desert..manageable | |
| exploit..intimidating | |
| reject..intricate | |
| prize..tractable |
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.
| unexpected..overhaul | |
| anticipated..recalibration | |
| indeterminate..rejection | |
| unobservable..review | |
| estimated..acceptance |
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