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superseded |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.
| discussed..replacement | |
| omitted..excuse | |
| revised..clarification | |
| disparaged. justification | |
| ignored..endorsement |
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