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.

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	inconsequential
	broken
	veritable
	resplendent
	impenetrable

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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."

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	a respected..opinion
	a constant..guidance
	a prime..publicity
	an unnoticed..opposition
	an unpromising..criticism

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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.

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	indecisiveness. .challenged
	radicalism..deterred
	conservatism.. hindered
	assumptions. .hastened
	resistance..mandated

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Question 4: Although often extremely critical of the medical profession as a whole, people are rarely willing to treat their personal doctors with equal ____.

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	impetuosity
	sarcasm
	mockery
	contempt
	condescension

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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.

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	universality..refined by
	importance..relegated to
	rationale..emphasized by
	primacy..determined by
	variability..reflected in

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