FIB Practice Set 74
Question 1: Science advances in ____spiral in that each new conceptual scheme ____ the phenomena explained by its predecessors and adds to those explanations.| a discontinuous ... decries | |
| a repetitive..vitiates | |
| a widening..embraces | |
| an anomalous..captures | |
| an explosive..questions |
Question 2: Politeness is not a ____attribute of human behavior, but rather a central virtue, one whose very existence is increasingly being ____ by the faddish requirement to "speak one's mind."
| superficial..threatened | |
| pervasive..undercut | |
| worthless..forestalled | |
| precious. repudiated | |
| trivial..affected |
Question 3: The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for, hanging in, a darkened recess of the chapel, it was ____ by the perspective.
| improved | |
| aggrandized | |
| embellished | |
| jeopardized | |
| diminished |
Question 4: Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as art form by-art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain ____.
| arbitrary | |
| estimable | |
| orthodox | |
| unspoken | |
| equivocal |
Question 5: Because it is ______to ______ all the business costs related to employee discontent, an accurate estimate of the magnitude of these costs is not easily calculated.
| difficult..measure | |
| impossible..justify | |
| improper..overlook | |
| useless..discover | |
| necessary..pinpoint |
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