Question

Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher ( 希臘哲學家 ) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?

No one had a ready answer, so Thales went on studying the earth around him, the sky and the stars. He saw so much water on earth and so much water falling from the sky as rain that he decided water must be the basic substance ( 物質 ) of the universe.

Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question. They suggested other answers. One said that because air lies around the earth, it must be air that makes up all things. Another said that fire, appearing in different forms, was the building block of the universe.

The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements ( 元素 )”.

1.Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about _________.

A．106 years old      B．94years old        C．64 years old       D．46 years old

2.From the passage we know that __________.

A．Thales asked many questions              B．Greeks were all philosophers

C．science began long ago                   D．water and air make up all things.

3.After reading the passage, we can be sure that_________.

A．nothing ever changes in the universe

B．Thales decided that the basic substance of the universe was air

C．the universe is made up of four different substances

D．the early Greek thinkers did much valuable work for the progress of science

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述的是科學起源的話題，古希臘思想家Thales提出了宇宙是由什么組成的時候？科學就出現了。并講述了希臘人對這個問題的研究。

1.B 計算題。根據文章第一行( about 640-546 B.C.)可知他大約94歲，所以是在94歲的時候去世的。故B正確。

2.C 推理題。根據文章第一段Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher ( 希臘哲學家 ) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?可知在古希臘的時候，Thales提出了這個問題，科學就出現了。故C正確。

3.D 細節題。根據文章3,4段Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question.和The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. 可知希臘的思想家和哲學家都對這個問題進行了探討，對于科技的發展做出了巨大的貢獻。故D正確。

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