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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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2010-03-19
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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.
【C20】
选项
A、described
B、believed
C、put it
D、termed
答案
A
解析
此题考查短语动词的用法。该题的最佳答案为A项put it。as sb.put it 用于引用或者重复某人的话,意思是“正如某人所说”。请注意,这种引用或重复可以是用引号的直接引用,也可以是不用引号的间接引用。例如:Long-term planning is a waste of time—as Keynes put it —in a long term we’re all dead。
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