FIB Practice Set 32
Question 1: The widespread public shock at the news of the guilty verdict was caused partly by ____news stories that had ____ acquittal.| sensational..condemned | |
| buried..urged | |
| impartial..mentioned | |
| biased..predicted | |
| local..denounced |
Question 2: The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth century are evidence that the medieval ____natural settings had been ___and that the outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.
| fear of..exorcised | |
| concerns about..regained | |
| affection for..surmounted | |
| disinterest in..alleviated | |
| enthusiasm for..confronted |
Question 3: Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ___since the Cambrian period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been either ____ or decreased diversity.
| changed..escalation | |
| increased..stasis | |
| expanded..discontinuity | |
| declined..reduction | |
| improved..deviation |
Question 4: Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using hormones to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether hormones that ____ in the laboratory can affect ____organisms, and in predictable ways.
| develop..similar | |
| succeed. _simpler | |
| fail..cellular | |
| work..whole | |
| reproduce..unknown |
Question 5: The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell's own prodigious activity and the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women during the 1870's _____any assertion that feminism was _____ in that period.
| exclude..thriving | |
| contradict..prospering | |
| pervade.. remote | |
| buttress. _dormant | |
| belie..quiescent |
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