GRE Text Completion
Aspartame, a new artificial sugar substitute, is only ________ replacement for saccharin because, unlike saccharin, it breaks down and loses its sweetening characteristics at high temperatures, making it ________ for baking.
#1
Trapped thousands of years ago in Antarctic ice, recently discovered air bubbles are ________ time capsules filled with information for scientists who chart the history of the atmosphere.
#2
In the days before the mass marketing of books, censorship was ________ source of ________, which helped the sale of the book and inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson to remark: “Every burned book enlightens the world”.
#3
It was not only the _________ geologists that ________ of earlier development of the revolutionary idea that the Earth’s continents were moving plates; classical physicists, who could not then explain the mechanism, had declared continental movement impossible.
#4
Although often extremely critical of the medical profession as a whole, people are rarely willing to treat their personal doctors with equal ________.
#5
Aalto, like other modernists, believed that form follows function; consequently, his furniture designs asserted the ________ of human needs, and the furniture’s form was ________ human use.
#6
A ________ acceptance of contemporary forms of social behavior has misled a few into believing that values in conflict with the present age are for all practical purposes ________.
