FIB Practice Set 36
Question 1: Trapped thousands of years ago in Antarctic ice, recently discovered air bubbles are ___ time capsules filled with information for scientists who chart the history of the atmosphere.| inconsequential | |
| broken | |
| veritable | |
| resplendent | |
| impenetrable |
Question 2: In the days before the mass marketing of books, censorship was _____source of ____, which helped the sale of the book and inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson to remark: "Every burned book enlightens the world."
| a respected..opinion | |
| a constant..guidance | |
| a prime..publicity | |
| an unnoticed..opposition | |
| an unpromising..criticism |
Question 3: It was not only the of geologists that ____earlier development of the revolutionary idea that the Earth's continents were moving plates; classical physicists, who could not then explain the mecha¬nism, had declared continental movement impos¬sible.
| indecisiveness. .challenged | |
| radicalism..deterred | |
| conservatism.. hindered | |
| assumptions. .hastened | |
| resistance..mandated |
Question 4: Although often extremely critical of the medical profession as a whole, people are rarely willing to treat their personal doctors with equal ____.
| impetuosity | |
| sarcasm | |
| mockery | |
| contempt | |
| condescension |
Question 5: Aalto, like other modernists, believed that form follows function; consequently,. his furniture designs asserted the _____ of human needs, and the furni¬ture's form was ____human use.
| universality..refined by | |
| importance..relegated to | |
| rationale..emphasized by | |
| primacy..determined by | |
| variability..reflected in |
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