FIB Practice Set 51
Question 1: In a ____ society that worships efficiency, it is difficult for a sensitive and idealistic person to make the kinds of ____ decisions that alone spell success as it is defined by such a society.| bureaucratic..edifying | |
| pragmatic.. hardheaded | |
| rational..well-intentioned | |
| competitive.. evenhanded | |
| modern.. dysfunctional |
Question 2: Because they had expected the spacecraft Voyager 2 to be able to gather data only about the planets Jupiter and Saturn, scientists were ____the wealth of information it sent back from Neptune twelve years after leaving Earth.
| disappointed in | |
| concerned about | |
| confident in | |
| elated by | |
| anxious for |
Question 3: Wearing the latest fashions was exclusively the _____ of the wealthy until the 1850's, when mass production, aggressive entrepreneurs, and the availability of the sewing machine made them ____ the middle class.
| aspiration..disagreeable to | |
| vexation..superfluous for | |
| bane..profitable to | |
| prerogative..accessible to | |
| obligation..popular with |
Question 4: Linguists have now confirmed what experienced users of ASL ____ American Sign Language ____have always implicitly known: ASL is a grammatically language in that it is capable of expressing every possible syntactic relation.
| limited | |
| economical | |
| complete | |
| shifting | |
| abstract |
Question 5: He was regarded by his followers as something of _____, not only because of his insistence on strict , discipline, but also because of his _____adherence to formal details.
| a martinet..rigid | |
| an authority..sporadic | |
| a tyrant..reluctant | |
| a fraud..conscientious | |
| an acolyte..maniacal |
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