FIB Practice Set 41
Question 1: Regardless of what ______theories of politics may propound, there is nothing that requires daily poli-tics to be clear, thorough, and consistent—nothing, that is, that requires reality to conform to theory.| vague | |
| assertive | |
| casual | |
| vicious | |
| tidy |
Question 2: Exposure to sustained noise has been claimed .to _____ blood pressure regulation in human beings and, particularly, to increase hypertension, even though some researchers have obtained inconclu¬sive results that ______the relationship.
| sharpen..conflate | |
| increase. .diminish | |
| aggravate. .buttress | |
| disrupt. .neutralize | |
| impair..obscure |
Question 3: After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as ____ to increas¬ingly expensive conventional housing.
| a reaction | |
| an addition | |
| an introduction | |
| an alternative | |
| a challenge |
Question 4: Just as such apparently basic things as rocks, clouds, and clams are, in fact, intricately structured entities, so the self, too, is not an "elementary particle," but is ____construction.
| a complicated | |
| a convoluted | |
| a distorted | |
| an amorphous | |
| an illusory |
Question 5: Considering how long she had yearned to see Italy, her first reaction was curiously _____.
| meditative | |
| tepid | |
| categorical | |
| unoriginal | |
| insightful |
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