FIB Practice Set 52
Question 1: The influence of the Timaeus among early philo¬sophical thinkers was ____, if only because it was the sole dialogue ____ in Europe for almost 1,000 years.| pervasive..available | |
| inestimable..suppressed | |
| noteworthy..abridged | |
| underestimated..studied | |
| circumscribed..translated |
Question 2: The Gibbons were little given to ____ in any form; not one of them was afraid of _____of being and seeming unlike their neighbors.
| humility..absurdity | |
| excellence..mediocrity | |
| anger..confrontation | |
| conformism..singularity | |
| ostentation..eccentricity |
Question 3: Even after ____ against the ____ of popular sover¬eignty were included, major figures in the human-istic disciplines remained skeptical about the proposal to extend suffrage to the masses.
| recommendations..continuation | |
| safeguards..excesses | |
| arguments..introduction | |
| provisions..advantages | |
| laws...creation |
Question 4: A recent survey shows that, while ninety-four percent of companies conducting management-training programs open them to women, women are ____only seventy-four percent of those programs.
| protesting against | |
| participating in | |
| displeased by | |
| allowed in | |
| refused by |
Question 5: Thomas Paine, whose political writing was often flamboyant, was in private life a surprisingly ____man: he lived in rented rooms, ate little, and wore drab clothes
| simple | |
| controversial | |
| sordid | |
| comfortable | |
| discourteous |
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