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英语(2)模拟试卷 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The rate at which man has been storing up useful knowledge about himself and the universe has been spiraling upward for 10,000 years. The __1__ took a sharp upward leap with the invention of writing, but even __2__ it remained painfully slow over centuries of time. The next great leap forward __3__ knowledge acquisition did not occur __4__ the invention of movable type in the 15th century by Gutenberg and others. __5__ to 1500, by the most optimistic __6__ Europe was producing books at a rate of 1000 titles per year. This means that it __7__ a full century to produce a library of 100,000 titles. By 1950, four and a half __8__ later, the rate had accelerated so sharply that Europe was producing 120,000 titles a year. __9__ once took a century now took only ten months. By 1960, a __10__ decade later, the rate had made another significant jump, __11__ a centurys work could be completed in seven and a half months. __12__ by the mid-sixties, the output of books on a world __13__, Europe included, approached the prodigious figure of 900 titles per day. One can __14__ argue that every book is a net gain for the advancement of knowledge. Nevertheless we find that the accelerative _15_ in book publication does, in fact, crudely __16__ the rate at which man discovered new knowledge. For example, prior to Gutenberg __17__ 11 chemical elements were known. Antimony the 12th, was discovered __18__ about the time he was working on his invention. It was fully 200 years since the 11th, arsenic, had been discovered. __19__ the same rate of discovery continued, we would by now have added only two or three additional