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As the world excitedly greeted Snuppy, the first cloned dog, commentators ce

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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 [br] 【S2】
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答案 K
解析 此处需要一个动词的过去分词。句首的but表语义转折，所以可知本句要表达与上句“很多人感到自豪”相反的意思，即需要一个消极意义的动词。只有disappeared(消失)是消极意义的动词。“disappeared from our society”意为“从我们的社会消失”。但是，最近英国的一家报纸《观察者》说真正的革新已在我们的社会消失。
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