FIB Practice Set 38

Question 1: New research on technology and public policy focuses on how seemingly____ design features generally overlooked in most analyses of public works projects or industrial machinery, actually ____social choices of profound significance.

	insignificant..mask
	inexpensive..produce
	innovative..represent
	ingenious..permit
	inopportune..hasten

Question 2: Paradoxically, Robinson's excessive denials of the worth of early works of science fiction suggest that she has become quite ____ them.

	reflective about
	enamored of
	skeptical of
	encouraged by
	offended by

Question 3: Cezanne's delicate watercolor sketches often served as _____ of a subject, a way of gathering fuller knowledge before the artist's final engagement of the subject in an oil painting.

	an abstraction
	an enhancement
	a synthesis
	a reconnaissance
	a transcription

Question 4: Though it would be ____to expect Barnard to have worked out all of the limitations of his experiment, he must be ____for his neglect of quantitative anal¬ysis.

	unjust..pardoned
	impudent..dismissed
	unrealistic..criticized
	pointless ..examined
	inexcusable..recognized

Question 5: The hierarchy of medical occupations is in many ways a ____ system; its strata remain ____and the practitioners in them have very little vertical mobility.