FIB Practice Set 63

Question 1: Observable as a tendency of our culture is a ______ of ______ psychoanalysis: we no longer feel that it can solve our emotional problems.

	divergence..certainty about
	confrontation..enigmas in
	withdrawal..belief in
	defense..weaknesses in
	failure..rigor in

Question 2: The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ______critical.

	perennially
	disturbingly
	uniquely
	archetypal
	captiously

Question 3: Rhetoric often seems to ______ over reason in a heated debate, with both sides ______in hyper-bole.

	cloud..subsiding
	prevail..yielding
	triumph..engaging
	reverberate clamoring
	trample..tangling

Question 4: Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ______ of ______.

	bereft..theatricality
	composed..adversity
	full..circumstantialities
	deprived..polarity
	devoid..neutrality

Question 5: In the current research program, new varieties of apple trees are evaluated under different agricul-tural _____ for tree size, bloom density, fruit size, _____ to various soils, and resistance to pests and disease.