AC - Use of English Word Formation and Multiple Choice Cloze | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

The real question is how do we slow things down in a world that seems to be moving at a ..... avidity, briskness, momentum, pace ..... of its own?

pace

Confusingly, ..... however, nonetheless, despite, but, ...... the FBI has a new mega-database with exactly the same name – Sentinel – to track suspected criminals and terrorists.

however

the combination of two drugs – paroxetine, an antidepressant, and pravastatin, a cholesterol-lowering drug – caused ..... high, extreme, elevated, great .....blood sugar.

high

In an article written for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, the team announced that it had ...... opened, uncovered, revealed, exposed ..... an unexpected medical finding

uncovered

Last week, scientists at Columbia and Stanford published their analysis of 82 million online searches, .....that, which, who, whom......were provided to them by Microsoft

which

But is there also a downside to ‘big data’ (the new term among information technology ..... territories, terrains, circles, fields ...... for the vast quantities of information now stored online) being opened up to researchers?

terrains

Some say that there is a way to harness our online activity for the ...... advancement, upgrading, betterment, elevation..... of humanity, like spotting potential health threats.

advancement

even if we are aware that our activity can be easily ......... pursued , followed, chased, tracked.

chased or tracked

Nobody is thrilled about social media applications like Facebook doing the same..........yet, although, however, but......... many of us indulge anyway

but

however for most of us the bigger issue is ....security, insurance, defense, protection........from corporate and state snooping..

security

There are benign uses of data mining, .....but, however, although , nevertheless ...... for most of us the bigger issue is ........

however

And that’s where you can find Hoffman — straddling the boundaries, attempting a .....(MATHEMATICS) model of the observer,

mathematical

that view can no longer be.......(HOLD)

upheld

that if we assume that the particles that make up ordinary objects have an objective, observer-independent........ (EXIST), we get the wrong answers.

existence

whether we are conscious humans or inanimate .....(MEASURE) devices.

measuring

This is the ..... (APT) named ‘hard problem’

aptly

On one side, you’ll find .....(RESEARCH) scratching their chins raw trying to understand how a.......

researchers

Getting at questions about the nature of reality and .....(ENTANGLE) the observer from the observed is an endeavor that straddles the boundaries of neuroscience and fundamental physics.

disentangling

It maximises evolutionary ..... (FIT) by driving truth to .....(EXTINCT)

fitness, extinction

His conclusion is a .....(DRAMA) one – the world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality.

dramatic

Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a .....(REASONABLE) decent one.

reasonably

Sure, when we stop and think about it — or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion — we realise with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world (DIRECT),

directly

We tend to assume that our perceptions — sights, sounds, textures and tastes — are an accurate .....(PORTRAY) of the real world.

portrayal

The cognitive .....(SCIENCE) Donald Hoffman uses evolutionary game theory to show that ........

scientist