Questions 30-34 refer to the following passage.
The Lumiere Brothers opened their Cinematographe, at 14 Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, to
100 paying customers over 100 years ago, on December 8, 1895.__30.__ the eyes of the stunned,
thrilled audience, photographs came to life and moved across a flat screen.
So ordinary and routine has this become to us __31.__ it takes a determined leap of the
imagination to grasp the impact of those first moving images. But it is worth trying, for to understandthe initial shock of those images is to understand the extraordinary power and magic of cinema, theunique, fascinating__32.__ that has made film the most dynamic, effective art form of the 20th century.
One of the Lumiere Brothers' earliest films was a 30-second piece which showed a section of a
railway platform flooded with sunshine. A train appears and heads straight for the camera. And that is all that happens_ 33.__ the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the greatest of all film artists,described the film as a "work of genius". "As the train approached," wrote Tarkovsky, "panic started inthe theater: people jumped and ran away. That was the moment __34.__ cinema was born. Thefrightened audience could not accept that they were watching a mere picture. Pictures were still, onlyreality moved: this must, therefore, be reality. In their confusion, they feared that a real train was aboutto crush them."
12. Which value is closest to the solution to log1o(3x2) - =1?
(A)-5.237;
(B)-4.482;
(C) 4.983;
(D) 6.329.