FIB Practice Set 33
Question 1: Only by ignoring decades of mismanagement and inefficiency could investors conclude that a fresh infusion of cash would provide anything more than a _____solution to the company's financial woes.| fair | |
| temporary | |
| genuine | |
| realistic | |
| complete |
Question 2: Although the discovery of antibiotics led to great advances in clinical practice, it did not represent a ____ bacterial illness, for there are some bacteria that cannot be ____ treated with antibiotics.
| breakthrough in..consistently | |
| panacea for..effectively | |
| neglect of..efficiently | |
| reexamination of..conventionally | |
| resurgence of..entirely |
Question 3: A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought the more convoluted the structure, the more ____the ideas.
| complicated | |
| inconsequential | |
| elementary | |
| fanciful | |
| blatant |
Question 4: Jones was unable to recognize the contradictions in his attitudes that were obvious to everyone else; even the hint of an untruth was ____to him, but he ____serious trouble by always cheating on his taxes.
| acceptable..risked | |
| exciting..averted | |
| repugnant..courted | |
| anathema..evaded | |
| tempting..hazarded |
Question 5: Even though the general's carefully qualified public statement could hardly be ___, some people took ___it.
| respected..liberties with | |
| inoffensive..umbrage at | |
| faulted..exception to | |
| credited..potshots at | |
| dismissed. interest in |
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