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Oceanography has been defined as "the application of all sciences to the study of the sea". Before the 19th century, scientists

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问题     Oceanography has been defined as "the application of all sciences to the study of the sea". Before the 19th century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between.
    Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was【S1】______ to go to sea to further his work.
    For most people the sea was【S2】______, and with the exception of early【S3】______ travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little mason to ask many questions about it, let【S4】______ to ask what lay beneath the surface. The first time that the question "What is at the【S5】______ of the oceans?" had to be answered with any commercial【S6】______ was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was【S7】______. The engineers had to know the depth profile (起伏形状) of the route to【S8】______ the length of cable that had to be manufactured.
    It was to Maury of the U.S. Navy that the Atlantic Telegraph Company turned, in 1853, for【S9】______ on this matter. In the 1840s, Maury had been【S10】______ for encouraging voyages during which soundings (测深) were taken to investigate the depths of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Later, some of his findings aroused much popular interest in his book The Physical Geography of the Sea.

A) physical         B) bottom             C) dived            D) responsible
E) consequence      F) reluctant          G) measurable       H) estimate
I) information      J) intercontinental   K) apart            L) remote
M) geology          N) proposed           O) alone
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