FIB Practice Set 64
Question 1: At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that _____ was very near the surface.| seriousness | |
| confidence | |
| laughter | |
| poise | |
| determination |
Question 2: Even though in today's Soviet Union the _____the Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank and-file clergy still have little _____ to practice their religion.
| practitioners among..opportunity | |
| dissidents within..obligation | |
| adversaries of..inclination | |
| leaders of..latitude | |
| traditionalists among.. incentive |
Question 3: The proponents of recombinant DNA research have decided to _____ federal regulation of their work; they hope that by making this compro¬mise they can forestall proposed state and local controls that might be even stiffer.
| protest | |
| institute | |
| deny | |
| encourage | |
| disregard |
Question 4: It is to the novelist's credit that all of the epi¬sodes in her novel are presented realistically, without any _____or playful supernatural tricks.
| elucidation | |
| discrimination | |
| artlessness | |
| authenticity | |
| whimsy |
Question 5: Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to _____theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, where productive approaches have long been highly _____.
| pragmatic...speculative | |
| inelegant..efficacious | |
| explanatory..intuitional | |
| wrongheaded..convergent | |
| simplistic..elusive |
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