FIB Practice Set 71
Question 1: Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still ____ on land, where mining is rela-tively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet to become a ____ enterprise.| scarce...common | |
| accessible..marginal | |
| unidentified .. subsidized | |
| conserved..public | |
| plentiful...profitable |
Question 2: The valedictory address, as it has developed in American colleges and universities over the years, has become. a very strict form, a literary ____that permits very little ____.
| text..clarity | |
| work..tradition | |
| genre..deviation | |
| oration..grandiloquence | |
| achievement..rigidity |
Question 3: A human being is quite ____creature, for the gloss of rationality that covers his or her fears and ____ is thin and often easily breached.
| a logical..problems | |
| a frail..insecurity | |
| a valiant..phobias | |
| an ambitious..morality | |
| a ludicrous..laughter |
Question 4: Unlike philosophers who constructed theoretically ideal states, she built a theory based on ____; thus, although her constructs may have been inelegant, they were ____ sound.
| reality..aesthetically | |
| intuition. intellectually | |
| surmise..scientifically | |
| experience..empirically | |
| conjecture. Factually |
Question 5: Once a duckling has identified a parent, the instinc¬tive bond becomes a powerful ____ for-additional learning-since; by ____ the parent, the duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted.
| impulse..surpassing | |
| referent..recognizing | |
| force..acknowledging | |
| inspiration..emulating | |
| channel..mimicking |
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