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2020新高考英语补充训练美国高中阅读理解训练整理13 Passage1 Diderot Passage Over a thirty-year period, Denis Diderot tire­ lessly undertook a bold endeavor; the philosopher and writer furthered technology education by creating one of the most important books of the 国 18th century He documented the Western worlds collective knowledge through a massive set of volumes called the Encyclopedic Today, Diderots Encyclopedic remains one of the most accessible Brimary sources for the study of technology during 『the Enlightenment, having received exposure in recent times through the Internet Since Diderot didnt know all there was to know, he sought contributors, more than 150, and organized their 72,000 articles into entries on lEpolitics economics, technology, and other topics His goal was to create an intellectual work instruc- tionally useful to all, but soon, his Encyclopedic became mired in controversy, and this precursor to the modern encyclopedia was seized after its incep- 囤tion, its publication banned by the French govern­ ment The encyclopedia, however, had already sparked mass interest in the secrets of manufactur­ ing and more, and so this how-to compendium was widely circulated underground after eventually 困being published in 1765 by a Swedish printer Undoubtedly, the Encyclopedic served then as a beacon of free thought, and questions about control of its content caused critics to boil over For in building a compilation of human knowledge, Di- 血derot made a direct political statement Essentially, the political statement was: You, the average person, can now know what only kings knew before In particular, Diderot created an encyclopedic revolution by integrating scientific discover­ ies with the liberal arts He linked technology to culture when he divided the Encyclopedic into three categories: history, philosophy, and poetry Diderot then assigned subj ects to these three gro