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As the world excitedly greeted Snuppy, the first cloned(克隆)dog, commentators

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问题     As the world excitedly greeted Snuppy, the first cloned(克隆)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 years, 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 quotes 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 since 19507" Watson asked, pointing out that except for a few innovations such as the Internet, most scientific research【S10】______modifies previous studies.

    A)rarely               I)radically
    B)introduced           J)struck
    C)merely               K)disappeared
    D)intimate             L)small
    E)distributed          M)interesting
    F)important            N)advertising
    G)advances             O)pessimistic
    H)statistics [br] 【S9】
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答案 B
解析 此处需要一个动词的过去分词。根据其搭配的宾语ideas or transformations，可确定答案为introduced。 what great ideas or transformations have been introduced意为“引入了什么重大的思想成果和变革”。
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