FIB Practice Set 47
Question 1: There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is _____other forms.segregated from | |
parallel to | |
dependent on | |
overshadowed by | |
mimicked by |
Question 2: The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of _____for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to _____ its own continental coastline.
negligence..fortify | |
custom..maintain | |
convenience..stabilize | |
expediency..defend | |
exigency..reinforce |
Question 3: Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and human¬ism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a _____between them.
generality | |
fusion. | |
congruity | |
dichotomy | |
reciprocity |
Question 4: A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist's subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling _____ the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.
facilitates | |
averts | |
neutralizes | |
implies | |
represses |
Question 5: While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly _____by their lively criticism.
humiliated | |
discomfited | |
deluded | |
disgraced | |
tantalized |
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