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We also know that otherwise beneficial technologies can ______ troubling ethical questions.

A. give rise
B. open up
C. bring up
D. open to

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It was Francis Bacon, a father of the modern scientific project, who said plainly that "the mechanical arts are of ambiguous use, serving as well for hurt as for _______".

A. cure
B. remedial
C. remedy
D. remediation

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"If the debasement of the arts and sciences to purposes of wickedness, luxury, and the like, be made a _____ of objection,"Bacon wrote, "let no one be moved thereby, for the same may be said of all earthly goods; of wit, courage, strength, beauty, wealth, light itself and the rest".

A. ground
B. earth
C. grounded
D. basis

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Science is inherently progressive, and so gives us the sense that all other means of understanding must _______ catch up.

A. strive to
B. try to
C. take to
D. strive for

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The ethical framework we need to deal with the challenges and to make the most of the promise of science and technology need not be developed _______ the latest scientific journal article.

A. on the basis of
B. upon
C. in light of
D. in sight of

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That wisdom, as it builds, can be __________ by scientific knowledge, but it can never be replaced by it.

A. informed
B. imparted
C. told
D. permeated

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Those other sources serve to ground our moral judgment, while science avoids or ________ moral questions, since it cannot answer them and rarely needs to ask them.

A. flatters
B. flat
C. flatten
D. flattens

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Rather than as morally neutral, then, we might describe the modern ________ of the scientific worldview as morally neutralizing, crowding out our means of moral reasoning and sources of moral authority.

A. ascend
B. ascent
C. allegiance
D. ascendancy

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For all its power, science risks leaving us morally and metaphysically ___________.

A. impotent
B. important
C. impact
D. impotence

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When we allude to the Brave New World as shorthand for the _____ technological dystopic that threatens our future if we fail to meet this challenge, we must be sure to remember the full Shakespearean exclamation from which Aldous Huxley drew his novel's title: "O brave new world that has such people in't!"

A. inhumane
B. inhuman
C. human
D. humane

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