FIB Reading

Question 1

Perception

Answer 1

a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem:

These photographs will affect people’s perceptions of war.

Question 2

Immense

Answer 2

extremely large in size or degree:
immense wealth/value

They spent an immense amount of time getting the engine into perfect condition.

Question 3

Percede

Answer 3

be or go before something or someone in time or space:
Kofi Annan preceded Ban Ki-moon as the Secretary-General of the UN.

It would be helpful if you were to precede the report with an introduction.

Question 4

Vulnerable

Answer 4

able to be easily physically or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked:
I felt very vulnerable, standing there without any clothes on.
It is on economic policy that the government is most vulnerable.
Tourists are more vulnerable to attack, because they do not know which areas of the city to avoid.

Question 5

Patent

Answer 5

the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number of years:
In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent on an apparatus for signalling and communicating called a Photophone.

Question 6

Cultivation

Answer 6

to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop:
Most of the land there is too poor to cultivate.

Question 7

Magnitude

Answer 7

the large size or importance of something:
They don’t seem to grasp the magnitude of the problem.

Question 8

Hostility

Answer 8

unfriendly and not liking something:
a hostile crowd
The president had a hostile reception in Ohio this morning.

Question 9

Prosper

Answer 9

(of a person or a business) to be or become successful, especially financially:
Lots of microchip manufacturing companies prospered at that time.

Question 10

Holistic

Answer 10

dealing with or treating the whole of something or someone and not just a part:
My doctor takes a holistic approach to disease.
Ecological problems usually require holistic solutions.

Question 11

Arduous

Answer 11

difficult, needing a lot of effort and energy:
an arduous climb/task/journey

Question 12

Deliberate

Answer 12

(often of something bad) intentional or planned:
a deliberate attack/insult/lie
We made a deliberate decision to live apart for a while

Question 13

Gut

Answer 13

the long tube in the body of a person or animal, through which food moves during the process of digesting food:
Meat stays in the gut longer than vegetable matter.

Question 14

Delineate

Answer 14

to describe or mark the edge of something:
The main characters are clearly delineated in the first chapter.
The boundary of the car park is delineated by a low brick wall.

Question 15

Amendment

Answer 15

a change or changes made to the words of a text:
He insisted that the book did not need amendment.
I’ve made a few last-minute amendments to the article.
Presidential power was reduced by a constitutional amendment in 1991

Question 16

Philanthropist

Answer 16

a person who helps the poor, especially by giving them money:
a donation from a wealthy 19th-century philanthropist

Question 17

Cluster

Answer 17

a group of similar things that are close together, sometimes surrounding something:
Have a look at the cluster of galaxies in this photograph.
There was a cluster of fans around him, asking for autographs.

Question 18

Perceive

Question 19

Mar

Question 20

Receptor

Question 21

Intrigue

Question 22

Bias

Question 23

Abundance

Question 24

Adjacent