首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Man has been storing up useful knowledge about himself and the universe at the rate which has been spiraling upward for 10,000 y
Man has been storing up useful knowledge about himself and the universe at the rate which has been spiraling upward for 10,000 y
admin
2016-06-25
24
问题
Man has been storing up useful knowledge about himself and the universe at the rate which has been spiraling upward for 10,000 years.
The【C1】______took a sharp upward leap with the invention of writing, but even【C2】______it remained painfully slow for several centuries. The next great leap forward【C3】______knowledge acquisition did not occur【C4】______the invention of movable type in the 15th century by Gutenberg and others.【C5】______to 1500, by the most optimistic【C6】______Europe was producing books at a rate of 1000 titles per year. This means that it【C7】______a full century to produce a library of 100,000 titles. By 1950, four and a half【C8】______later, the rate had accelerated so sharply that Europe was producing 120,000 titles a year.【C9】______once took a century now took only ten months. By 1960, a【C10】______decade later, the rate had made another significant jump,【C11】______a century’ s work could be finished in seven and a half months.【C12】______by the mid-sixties, the output of books on a world【C13】______, Europe included, approached the prodigious figure of 900 titles per day.
One can【C14】______argue that every book is a net gain for the advancement of knowledge. Nevertheless we find that the accelerative【C15】______in book publication does, in fact, crudely【C16】______the rate at which man discovered new knowledge. For example, prior to Gutenberg 【C17】______11 chemical elements were known. Antimony, the 12th, was discovered【C18】______about the time he was working on his invention. It was fully 200 years since the 11th, arsenic, had been discovered.【C19】______the same rate of discovery continued, we would by now have added only two or three additional elements to the periodic table since Gutenberg.【C20】______in the 450 years after his time, certain people discovered some seventy additional elements. And since 1900 we have been isolating the remaining elements not at a rate of one every two centuries, but of one every three years.
【C14】
选项
A、so
B、hardly
C、accordingly
D、therefore
答案
B
解析
hardly“几乎不能”,本句意为我们并不能说,每本书都能促进知识的进步。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/zPRd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Thefamilyinthewesternworldhaschangedgreatlyduringthelasttwocenturies.Beforethenineteenthcentury,families
Learningdisabilitiesareverycommon.They【21】______perhaps10percentofallchildren.Scientistsnowknowthereareman
Learningdisabilitiesareverycommon.They【21】______perhaps10percentofallchildren.Scientistsnowknowthereareman
Forwhomdidthespeakerprobablysaythispassage?
Accordingtothenewschoolofscientists,technologyisanoverlookedforceinexpandingthehorizonsofscientific’knowledge.
Thedemoralizingenvironment,decrepit(老朽的)buildingandminimalmaterialsmakethehighschoolexperienceforthesechildrena
In1963anAmericanphysiotherapist(理疗家)GlennDomanwroteabest-sellingbookcalled"HowtoTeachYourBabytoRead".Nowtra
ThecelebrationsofNAFTA’s10thanniversaryarefarmoremutedthanthoseinvolvedinitscreationmighthavehoped.IntheUni
Manyayoungpersontellsmehewantstobeawriter.Ialwaysencouragesuchpeople,butIalsoexplainthatthere’sabigdiff
shoplifting
随机试题
在管理思想史上,马克斯·韦伯被誉为【】
某宗出租的房地产,建筑面积为40000m2,容积率为4,土地使用期限为40年,自2005年10月1日起计算,约定不可续期。建筑物为钢筋混凝土结构,于2007年10月1日建成,可供出租的面积占总建筑面积的70%。根据市场调查得知,2010年10月1日该类房地
监理工程师进行物资供应进度控制的主要工作内容包括( )。
根据调查,甲公司是常温奶无菌纸包装的发明者,使用范围占国内常温奶包装市场的60%。虽然其已经丧失专利权,但仍然要求客户在合同约定的期限内不得选择其他包装材料公司的包装。根据反垄断法律制度的规定,该行为构成滥用市场支配地位的()行为。
“三个有利于”标准是指是否有利于()。
下面哪种情况可以联合行文?()
国家垄断资本主义在第一次世界大战爆发前就开始形成,在两次大战期间得到一定的发展,在第二次世界大战后获得广泛而迅速的发展。国家垄断资本主义的发展()。
JohnBattelleisSiliconValley’sBobWoodward.AsoneofthefoundersofWiredmagazine,hehashungaroundGoogleforsolong
ALifewithBirdsFornearly17yearsDavidCopehasworkedasoneoftheTowerofLondon’sYeomanWarders,【C1】______knownt
ScienceandTechnologyThereisadifferencebetweenscienceandtechnology.(46)Sciencehastodowithdiscoveringthefactsand
最新回复
(
0
)