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  3. The West has begun to take more notice of the East. The fifth【C1】______of an enormous【C2】______reassessing the Chinese contr

The West has begun to take more notice of the East. The fifth【C1】______of an enormous【C2】______reassessing the Chinese contr

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问题     The West has begun to take more notice of the East.
    The fifth【C1】______of an enormous【C2】______reassessing the Chinese contribution to science and technology is to be published next year. The first volume,【C3】______was published twenty years ago,【C4】______the tone of the whole work. In it, evidence was given to show that many inventions which【C5】______, western historians had claimed for Europe, were made【C6】______in China. The attempt to rewrite the intellectual history of the world was not received【C7】______protest by some reputable historians.【C8】______, the evidence that has been presented so far in the first four volumes has persuaded many historians who were【C9】______at first. China’s invention of paper, printing, the magnetic compass and gunpowder【C10】______disputed, but this new history has added【C11】______bridge design, mechanical clocks, paddleboats and many【C12】______inventions to the list.
    In the four volumes published so far no attempt has been made to explain【C13】______China has not kept up with the West in science and technology in modern【C14】______. It is probable that the answer【C15】______in the social and economic history of China, where a static society【C16】______a relatively benevolent regime of scholar-gentry【C17】______the potentially revolutionary and dynamic society of the West at the end of the Middle Ages. In recent years, the Chinese government has been making every effort to【C18】______the West again, and there is【C19】______doubt that the gap is being【C20】______year by year. But will China avoid the West’s mistake?
【C14】
选项 A、age
B、ages
C、time
D、times
答案D
解析 词汇题。词义辨析题。空格含义应为“时代”。times意为“时代，时势，境况”，尤指许多年并以类似状况或现象等为标志的一段时间，如：In his times，people didn’t know whether lightening was electricity．他生活的那个年代，人们不知道闪电是否就是电。可见，times的含义正与题意相符，为正确答案。time也可指“一段时间”，但指在延续中的相隔两点之间的间隔，指持续时间，如：It has been a long time since the last war．离上次战争已经很长一段时间了。age“代，时代，时期”，指人类历史的一个时代或时期，以其独有的特征或成就为标志。如：the Stone Age石器时代／the computer age电脑时代。age与times相比，前者更强调其独特性，往往用于历史上一些特定的历史时代。ages为age的复数形式，也常作为非正式用语，表“长时期，许多年，很长的一段时间”，如：I haven’t seen you forages．我很久没有看见你了。由此可见，无论time还是age或ages均不符题意。
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