FIB Practice Set 60

Question 1: The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor an active one, but what might be called an actively _____ one, eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.

	adaptive
	selective
	inquisitive
	receptive
	intuitive

Question 2: Opponents of the expansion of the market economy, although in _____, continued to constitute _____ political force throughout the century.

	error..an inconsequential
	retreat..a powerful
	disarray..a disciplined
	jeopardy..an ineffective
	command..a viable

Question 3: Nature's energy efficiency often _____ human technology: despite the intensity of the light fire¬flies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency _____the firefly's system.

	engenders..manipulates
	reflects..simulates
	outstrips..rivals
	inhibits..matches
	determines..reproduces

Question 4: Scholars' sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of "the state" at the time when political science became an academic field quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly _____ mode of study.

	thorough
	distinctive
	dependable
	scientific
	dynamic

Question 5: Just as astrology was for centuries _____faith countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of _____ the professional sciences.