Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
1-
Gitte Meyer of the Copenhagen Business School notes that during the past decades, swarms of scientists from a wide range of fields have migrated from their ......... and descended onto the marketplace, adapting themselves to marketing practices in the process.
A -
ivory towers
B -
leaning towers
C -
towering infernos
D -
towers of Babel
2-
With surprising ease, science journalism seems to be adapting too; penduling comfortably between old-fashioned enlightenment, aimed at promoting science as a ........., and PR exercises, aimed at selling science on behalf of private interests.
A -
common good
B -
common ground
C -
commonplace
D -
commonwealth
3-
This development provides ......... for thought in more than one sense.
A -
food
B -
grist
C -
meal
D -
meat
4-
In one respect, it prompts a critical question regarding conventional science journalism, marked by a lack of distinction ......... science popularization: does this kind of science writing in fact differ significantly from marketing practices?
A -
in lieu of
B -
perse
C -
versus
D -
vis-vis
5-
At first ......... at least, there does not appear to be a big difference — if any at all — between promoting and selling.
A -
glance
B -
glare
C -
glimpse
D -
glint
6-
Moreover, it prompts ......... on what kind of practices journalists, who are committed to enlightenment ideals about the rule of reason — ambiguous as those ideals are — should pursue in modern societies in order to keep the ideals alive.
A -
deflection
B -
dejection
C -
reflection
D -
rejection
7-
Should they ......... to conventions and simply continue to promote or to sell science?
A -
bond
B -
clasp
C -
fix
D -
stick
8-
Or should they acknowledge that to promote what is seen, navely perhaps, but nevertheless as a general benefit, is a far ......... from selling the same thing, in much the same way, on behalf of vested interests?
A -
cry
B -
shout
C -
sight
D -
view
9-
The fundamental convention of science journalism is the convention of science transmission; that is, the ......... that journalists should relate to science by way of transporting scientific facts from scientists to a lay public for consumption.
A -
constriction
B -
contradiction
C -
prediction
D -
prescription
10-
The convention also contains the ......... that journalists should not interfere in any way with the scientific facts.