FIB Practice Set 53
Question 1: Their ____of loyalties is first to oneself, next to kin, then to fellow tribe members, and finally to compa¬triots.| merging | |
| hierarchy | |
| definition | |
| judgment | |
| cognizance |
Question 2: The belief that science destroys the arts appears to be supported by historical evidence that the arts have ____ only when the sciences have been ____.
| declined..attacked | |
| flourished..neglected | |
| matured..unconcerned | |
| succeeded..developed | |
| floundered..constrained |
Question 3: The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ____ that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable ____.
| spurned..boredom | |
| forgotten..condescension | |
| skepticism classified..self-righteousness | |
| plausible..guilt | |
| gripping |
Question 4: In the design of medical experiments, the need for ____ assignment of treatments to patients must be ____ the difficulty of persuading patients to partici¬pate in an experiment in which their treatment is decided by chance.
| independent..amended by | |
| competent..emphasized by | |
| mechanical..controlled by | |
| swift..associated with | |
| random..reconciled with |
Question 5: Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an ____ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock-market prices are ____ by comparison.
| amateur's..sensible | |
| expert's..erratic | |
| investor's..booming | |
| insider's..predictable | |
| artist's..irrational |
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