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  3. It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the effects of the two world wars in promoting all kind of innovation. It should be

It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the effects of the two world wars in promoting all kind of innovation. It should be

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问题     It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the effects of the two world wars in promoting all kind of innovation. It should be (1)_____ also that technological innovations have (2)_____ the character of war itself by the (3)_____ of new mechanical and chemical device. One weapon developed during World War II (4)_____ a special mention. The (5)_____ of rocket propulsions was well known earlier, and its possibilities as a (6)_____ of achieving speeds sufficient to escape from the Earth’s gravitational pull had been (7)_____ by the Russian and the American scientists. The latter built experimental liquid-fuelled rockets in 1926. (8)_____, a group of German and Romanian pioneers was working (9)_____ the same lines and in the 1930s, it was this team that developed a rocket (10)_____ of delivering a warhead hundreds of miles away. Reaching a height of over 100 miles, the V-2 rocket (11)_____ the beginning of the Space Age, and members of its design team were (12)_____ in both the Soviet and United States space programs after the war.
    Technology had a tremendous social (13)_____ in the period 1900 1945. The automobile and electric power, (14)_____, radically changed both the scale and the quality of 20th-century life, (15)_____ a process of rapid urbanization and a virtual revolution (16)_____ living through mass production of household goods and (17)_____
    The rapid development of the airplane, the cinema, and radio made the world seem suddenly smaller and more (18)_____. The development of many products of the chemical industry further transformed the life of most people. In the years (19)_____ 1945 the constructive and creative opportunities of modern technology could be (20)_____, although the process has not been without its problems.
选项 A、preceding
B、previous
C、subsequent
D、following
答案D
解析 该题考的是对本文内容的理解和近义词辨析。该句的意思是：在 1945年以后的年代里…。从本文按时间顺序论述的写作特点以及本句的内容来看，这里应该讲的是二战后对现代科学技术的应用，而following在此是做后置定语的现在分词，1945是其宾语，the years following l945即"1945年以后的年代"，正符合文意。其余三项：preceding意思是"在…之前"；previous意思是"以前的，在先的"；subsequent"随后的，后来的"是形容词，虽然符合文意，但只能做前置定语。
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