FIB Practice Set 8
Question 1: Although providing wild chimpanzees with food makes them less _______ and easier to study, it is also known to _______ their normal social patterns.| interesting...reinforce | |
| manageable...upset | |
| shy…disrupt | |
| poised… inhibit | |
| accessible…retard |
Question 2: There is something______ about the way the building of monasteries proliferated in eighteenth-century Bavaria, while in the rest of the Western world religious ardor was _____and church building was consequently declining.
| enigmatic…coalescing | |
| destructive...changing | |
| immutable... dissipating | |
| incongruous…diminishing | |
| momentous...diversifying |
Question 3: Because they had various meanings in nineteenth-century biological thought, "mechanism" and "vitalism" ought not to be considered ______terms; thus. I find the recent insistence that the terms had single definitions to be entirely ___
| univocal...erroneous | |
| problematic...anachronistic | |
| intractable...obtuse | |
| congruent...suspect | |
| multifaceted...vapid |
Question 4: Many Americans believe that individual initiative epitomized the 1890's and see the entrepreneur as the _______ of that age.
| caricature | |
| salvation | |
| throwback | |
| aberration | |
| personification |
Question 5: Neither the ideas of philosophers nor the practices of ordinary people can, by themselves, ____reality; what in fact changes reality and kindles revolution is the_____ of the two.
| constitute...divergence | |
| affect…aim | |
| transform…interplay | |
| preserve...conjunction | |
| alter...intervention |
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