FIB Practice Set 5
Question 1: The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he criticized Dickens' Oliver Twist for making the characters in the thieves' kitchen so__________.| threatening | |
| riveting | |
| conniving | |
| fearsome | |
| irritating |
Question 2: The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to _________ its significance.
| underrate | |
| control | |
| reassess | |
| praise | |
| eliminate |
Question 3: Their mutual teasing seemed ___________ , but in fact it ____________ a long-standing hostility.
| aimless...produced | |
| friendly...masked | |
| playful…contravened | |
| bitter…revealed | |
| clever...alerted |
Question 4: Noting that few employees showed any __________ for complying with the corporation's new safety regulations, Peterson-itwas forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be _________, at best.
| aptitude…unavoidable | |
| regard…indeterminate | |
| respect…negotiable | |
| patience...imminent | |
| enthusiasm…grudging |
Question 5: It has been argued that politics as ____, whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.
| a theory | |
| an ideal | |
| a practice | |
| a contest | |
| an enigma |
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