FIB Practice Set 35
Question 1: Compared mathematically to smoking and driving, almost everything else seems relatively risk-free, ____almost nothing seems worth regulating.| yet | |
| since | |
| so | |
| even though | |
| as long as |
Question 2: Ironically, Carver's precision in sketching lives on ____ the edge of despair ensures that his stories will some¬times be read too narrowly, much as Dickens' social-reformer role once caused his broader concerns to be ____.
| ignored | |
| reinforced | |
| contradicted | |
| diminished | |
| diversified |
Question 3: The demise of the rigorous academic curriculum in high school resulted, in part, from the progressive rhetoric that ____ the study of subjects previously thought ____ as part of school learning.
| advocated..necessary | |
| enhanced. indispensable | |
| restricted. impractical | |
| undermined..popular | |
| sanctioned. Inappropriate |
Question 4: While some see in practical jokes a wish for mastery in miniature over a world that seems very ____, others believe that the jokes' purpose is to disrupt, by reducing all transactions to ____.
| dubious..confusion | |
| disorderly..symmetry | |
| harmonious.. dissonance | |
| unruly..chaos | |
| turbulent..uniformity |
Question 5: Aspartame, a new artificial sugar substitute, is only _____ replacement for saccharin because, unlike saccharin, it breaks down and loses its sweetening characteristics at high temperatures, making it ____ for baking.
| an interim..ideal | |
| an apparent..excellent | |
| a potential.. versatile | |
| a significant..problematic | |
| a partial..unsuitable |
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