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  3. As the world excitedly greeted Snuppy, the first cloned dog, commentators celebrated our cleverness. Many feel proud that our ag

As the world excitedly greeted Snuppy, the first cloned dog, commentators celebrated our cleverness. Many feel proud that our ag

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问题     As the world excitedly greeted Snuppy, the first cloned dog, commentators celebrated our cleverness. Many feel proud that our age is marked by technological【S1】______. But an article in British newspaper The Observer recently said true innovation has【S2】______from our society.
    The writer was Peter Watson, author of the book Ideas — A History from Fire to Freud. Watson began: "The year 2005 can’t begin to compete with 1905 in terms of【S3】______innovations."
    "Writing a history of ideas over the past three ears, I have been【S4】______time and again by the fact that, contrary to what we tell ourselves all the time-on TV, in newspapers and magazines, in【S5】______and in government propaganda — our present world is nowhere near as【S6】______and innovative as it thinks it is, certainly in comparison with past ages."
    "Yes, we are dazzled by mobile phones, cameras, digital TV, and the www, by laser- guided surgery and bombs, by DNA fingerprinting, and now by cloning. These are not【S7】______things but do they change the way we think in important — in fundamental — directions?"
    Watson quoted Richard Southern, Oxford University historian, who died last year: "Southern thought the most interesting times in history were 1050—1250 and 1750—1950."
    "Each of these periods transformed our understanding of ourselves【S8】______."
    "But what great ideas or transformations have been【S9】______in the half-century since19507" Watson asked, pointing out that except for a few innovations such as the Internet, most scientific research【S10】______modifies previous studies.

A)rarely         B)introduced    C)merely        D)intimate       E)distributed
F)important      G)advances      H)statistics    I)radically      J)struck
K)disappeared    L)small         M)interesting   N)advertising    O)pessimistic
【S2】
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答案K
解析 此处需要一个动词的过去分词。句首的but表语义转折，所以可知本句要表达与上句“很多人感到自豪”相反的意思，即需要一个消极意义的动词。只有disappeared(消失)是消极意义的动词。“disappeared from our society”意为“从我们的社会消失”。但是，最近英国的一家报纸《观察者》说真正的革新已在我们的社会消失。
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