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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] 【S10】
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答案 C
解析 此处需要一个副词作状语。上文已经提到当今的世界没有过去的世界有趣和有创新性，因此可知大部分科学研究都没什么创新，所以答案为merely。merely modifies previous studies意为“仅仅修改了以前的研究”。
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