That the web may seem some ________ phenomenon, hardly rooted in the physical world, is a notion clearly ________ by the existence of “server farms,” sprawling forests of metal that, figuratively speaking, provide the backbone of the Internet.
(1st blank)
ethereal
ephemeral
faddish
(2nd Blank)
buttressed
betrayed
unsupported
blank 1: ethereal because of “hardly rooted in the physical world” and the comma before that indicating support
blank 2: we see the evidence of physical objects that provide internet, thus the earlier statement is being contradicted.
d) buttress = support, so wrong
b/w e and f, e is a better option because we are not just removing support, we are contradicting it completely
So, Ans = a, e