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.
| elegance | |
| resolution | |
| goodness | |
| originality | |
| sympathy |
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