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The industrial societies have been extremely productive during the last two centuries. The 【S1】______ advance has been remarkabl
The industrial societies have been extremely productive during the last two centuries. The 【S1】______ advance has been remarkabl
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The industrial societies have been extremely productive during the last two centuries. The 【S1】______ advance has been remarkable. During this 【S2】______ short period of time, greater changes in people’s living conditions have occurred than in the thousands of years which 【S3】______ .
From about 8000 B.C., when the agricultural era of the human race Began, to 1776 A. D., the Beginning of the American Revolution, people grew 【S4】______ any richer at all. The Americans of 1776 used the same energy sources as the Romans of 1 A.D.
Both the 【S5】______ Romans and the Americans of 200 years ago could travel about the same short distance in a day. Both had about the same 【S6】______ income and the same life span.
During the past 200 years the world population has increased 6 times, the annual world 【S7】______ has increased 80 times, and the distance a person can travel has gone up 1,000 times. There has also been much recent 【S8】______ in art, culture, learning, and science. Such changes have led to a high rate of production and growth of the economy.
Economists fear that within the next 100 to 150 years, the earth’s resources will become very scarce. Their fears axe partly justified, but we should not be afraid. Industrial 【S9】______ adapts to new knowledge. By advancing knowledge, we not only create new forms of resources, but we also find ways to 【S10】______ their use.
A) hardly B) output C) presumably D) annual
E) civilization F) economical G) relatively H) circulation
I) economic J) followed K) progress L) modernize
M) economize N) preceded O) ancient
【S3】
选项
答案
N
解析
从这个句子的结构看,它是一个含有比较状语从句的句子,那么than引出的状语从句一定是表示过去的省略句。在选项中有两个动词的过去式为followed和preceded,而这两个动词词义恰好相反。follow的意思是“(某事在时间、空间或顺序上)在(他人或其他事物)之后发生”,而precede的意思是“(在时间、顺序上)在(某事物)之前发生”。因此选择N符合本句的意思。
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