FIB Practice Set 56

Question 1: People frequently denigrate books about recent catastrophes as morally ____ attempts to profit from misfortune, but in my view our desire for such books, together with the venerable tradition to which they belong ____ them.

	inopportune..encourages
	fortuitous..fosters
	treacherous..safeguards
	despicable..legitimizes
	corrupt.. generates

Question 2: That many of the important laws of science were discovered during experiments designed to _____other phenomena suggests that experimental results are the ____of inevitable natural forces rather than of planning.

	analyze..foundations
	disprove..predecessors
	alter..adjuncts
	illuminate..consequence
	verify..essence

Question 3: Although in eighteenth-century England an active cultural life-accompanied the beginnings of middle-class consumerism, the _____ of literacy was ____ with the rise of such consumerism in the different areas ,of the country.

	repudiation..reconciled
	renewal..inconsistent
	promotion..combined
	spread..compatible
	degree..uncorrelated

Question 4: The trainees were given copies of a finished manual to see whether they could themselves begin to _____ ¬the inflexible, though tacit, rules for composing more of-such instructional materials.

	design
	revise
	disrupt
	standardize
	derive

Question 5: Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of _____ is the first step in learning to be creative.