FIB Practice Set 29
Question 1: Though many medieval women possessed devotional books that had belonged to their mothers, formal written evidence of women bequeathing books to their daughters is scarce, which suggests that such bequests were - and required no ____.| unselfish..rationalization | |
| tangential..approval | |
| customary..documentation | |
| covert..discretion | |
| spurious..record |
Question 2: Although their initial anger had ____ somewhat, they continued to ____ the careless worker who had broken the machine.
| blazed..assail | |
| diminished..appease | |
| abated..berate | |
| subsided..condone | |
| intensified..torment |
Question 3: Borrowing a copyrighted book from a library amounts to a form of theft _____by entrenched custom: the copyright owner's property; the book, is used repeatedly without ___ for such use.
| engendered..application | |
| anticipated..acknowledgment | |
| sanctioned..compensation | |
| provoked..adjustment | |
| perpetrated..permission |
Question 4: The notion that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host organism is not mere fiction; indeed, the phenomenon is not even____,
| observable | |
| Real | |
| comprehended | |
| rare | |
| imaginable |
Question 5: Although Shakespeare received little formal educa¬tion, scholarship has in recent years ____ the view that he was ____the work of classical authors.
| substantiated..unimpressed by | |
| eroded..obsessed by | |
| supported..oblivious to | |
| questioned..influenced by | |
| undermined..unfamiliar with |
Next Passage
2000+ CAT Verbal Practice Problems all with Video Explanations.
click here for FREE trial
click here for FREE trial