FIB Practice Set 26

Question 1: It was a war the queen and her more prudent coun¬selors wished to ____if they could and were deter-mined in any event to____ as long as possible.

	provoke..delay
	denounce..deny
	instigate..conceal
	curtail.. promote
	avoid..postpone

Question 2: Despite many decades 'of research on the gasification of coal, the data accumulated are not directly to environmental questions; thus a new program of research specifically addressing such questions is ____.

	analogous.. promising
	transferable..contradictory
	antithetical..unremarkable
	applicable..warranted
	pertinent..unnecessary

Question 3: Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by their ____environment, human beings are products of a culture accumulated over centuries, yet one that is constantly being ____ by massive infusions of new information from everywhere.

	harsh..unconfirmed
	surrounding..upheld
	immediate..transformed
	natural..mechanized
	limited..superseded

Question 4: Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having ____ the conflicting elements of her life.

	affirmed
	highlighted
	reconciled
	confined
	identified

Question 5: 5. In their preface, the collection's editors plead that certain of the important. articles they ____ were published too recently for. inclusion, but in the case of many such articles, this _____is not valid.