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.