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  3. What will future historians remember about the impact of science 【C1】______ the last decade of the 20th century? They will not b

What will future historians remember about the impact of science 【C1】______ the last decade of the 20th century? They will not b

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问题      What will future historians remember about the impact of science 【C1】______ the last decade of the 20th century? They will not be much 【C2】______ with many of the marvels that currently preoccupy us, 【C3】______ the miraculous increase in the power of home computers and the unexpected growth of the Internet. 【C4】______ will they dwell much 【C5】______ global warming, the loss of biodiversity and other examples of our penchant for 【C6】______ .Instead, tile end of the 20th century will be 【C7】______ as the time when, for better or worse, science began to bring 【C8】______ a fundamental shift in our 【C9】______ of ourselves.
     It will be the 【C10】______ time that science has forced us to re evaluate 【C11】______ we are. The first time, of course, was the revolution that 【C12】______ Copernicus in 1543 and continued with Kepler, Galileo and Newton. 【C13】______ the Church’s opposition, we came to realize that the Earth does not 【C14】______ at the center of the universe. 【C15】______ we gradually found we live on a small planet on the edge of a minor galaxy, 【C16】______ one star in a universe that contains billions of others. Our 【C17】______ position in the universe was gone forever.
     A few centuries later we were removed even 【C18】______ from stage center. The Darwinian revolution removed us from our position as a unique 【C19】______ of God. Instead we discovered we were just another part of the animal kingdom proud to have "a miserable ape for a grandfather", as Thomas Huxley 【C20】______ in 1860. We know now just how close to the apes we are—over 90% of our genes are the same of those of tile chimpanzee.
【C8】
选项 A、up
B、in
C、on
D、about
答案D
解析 此题考查介词的用法。这四个词都可以用在动词bring后面，但含义却不尽相同。bring up的意思是“提出(某一话题)”，例如：bring up this question at the next meeting。bring in意思是“让…参加”，例如：bring in some members of the audience to get their views on the issue。bring on和bring about都有“引起”或者“招致”的含义，但bring on常指令人不快的事，例如：
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