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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
【S6】
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答案M
解析 此处需要一个形容词，和innovative并列作表语。因为innovative是积极意义的形容词，所以空白处的形容词也应是积极意义的。下文是对我们当今世界的描述，倒数第三段和最后一段分别提到了“the most interesting times in history”和“a few innovations”，因此此处正确答案是interesting(有趣的)。本句意为：……当然与过去的时代相比，我们当今的世界一点都不如自己所想象的那样有意思，那样有创新性。
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