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WORD FORMATION – PRACTICE 3

1. Reactionware, the name given to some special vessels in which chemical reactions take
place, could be safely used outside of lab because the whole reaction is _____. (CONTAIN)
2. The (A) _____ of a report or testimony becomes important when the judge tries to relate the
information presented to the regulations, which means a (B) _____ report can give one side an
advantage. (WORD)
3. French glaciologists used data from _____ instruments to investigate glacier changes in a
mountain range straddling in the borders of China. (SPACE)
4. Professor Barry Marshall talked about his _____ when struggled to convince other medics that a
bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, not stress – causes stomach ulcers. He swallowed some of it,
and his resulting discovery won him a Nobel Prize. (EXPERIENCE)
5. Gammaproteobacteria, an important class of bacteria that helps maintaining the immune
system, influences the production of _____ proteins called cytokines. (FLAME)
6. Failing to catch his friends and falling over a stone, the boy, who was (A) _____, threw away
the (B) _____ then burst into tears. (BLIND)
7. Every evening some quarrel would break out as if the spouse were looking for an opportunity
to let off steam and unwind _____ nerves. (TENSE)
8. Some snakes are (A) _____ in the natural world but actually they aren’t (B) _____ predators, and
are harmless to humans. (FRIGHT, FEAR)
9. _____ competition proper occurs only when the sale price of any quantity of commodity
stands below the short-period supply price of that quantity. (THROAT)
10. An anonymous _____ is assessed as being insufficient for establishing a reasonable suspicion; it
should be possible to use sit upon ‘indications of a terrorist crime.’ (TIP)

1. self-contained 2. A. wording B. well-worded 3. space-based 4. self-experimentation 5. anti-inflammatory

6. A. blindfolded B. blindfold 7. tensed-up 8. A. frightening-looking B. fearsome 9. Cut-throat 10. tip-off
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PASSAGE

Astronomers have a reputation for bringing us (1) _____ (INSPIRE) discoveries: new planets,
exploding stars, galaxies on the edge of the known Universe. But now they are on the trail of most
(2) _____ (BOGGLE) finding of all: evidence for a whole new universe beyond your own.

For millennia, philosophers have insisted that everything we see is part of the (3) _____
(COMPASS) totality called the Universe. Since the discovery of cosmic expansion around a century
ago, astronomers believed there must be a final (4) _____ (FRONT), an ultimate barrier beyond
which objects were receding so fast their light would simply never reach us. According to the
latest theories of the forces that rule the cosmos, what has been regarded as the Universe may in
fact just be one of an infinite number making up something far grander: the true universe – or
Multiverse.

The theories state that our Universe is just one of the “bubble universes” constantly budding
off one another, and inflating after their own Big Bang. Each bubble universe could be radically
different from our own with its own set of fundamental forces and types of sub-atomic particles.
Even so, they may be able to affect our Universe, with (5) _____ (DETECTION) consequences.
Theory predicts that if our Universe is stuck by one of its cosmic neighbor, the energy of the impact
would leave a faint (6) _____ (RING) pattern in the Cosmic Microwave Background. The orbiting
space (7) _____ (OBSERVE) Planck maps the intensity and (8) _____ (POLAR) of the CMB radiation
left over from the Big Bang, looking for (9) _____ (TELL) signs of a collision between our Universe and
others. Theorists speculate that different bubbles universes may be also connected by (10) _____
(CALL) “space-time wormholes”.

PASSAGE 1. awe-inspiring 2. mind-boggling 3. all-encompassing 4. frontier 5. detectable 6. ring-like

7. observatory 8. polarization 9. tell-tale 10. so-called