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VI. Reading Comprehension 5%Science as we know it today can be said to have started with the ancient Greeks, with thelikes of Herodotus, Aristotle and Theophrastus, all of whom lived from 300 to 500 years beforeChrist.Their findings were still valid two millenniums later, when science was reborn with theRenaissance following the Dark Ages when after the fall of Rome, roughly 1000 years after theGreeks created their scientific theories, science and learning were forgotten during the ravagesof war and disease which enveloped the whole of the then civilized world.Geology, even mineralogy, can be traced back to the Greeks. They recognized that theposition of the land and sea had changed and that a great length of time had been necessary forthese changes. They believed the world was round, that the orbits of planets were also circularand they noticed that heavy objects fell faster than light ones. So, more sciences than one can besaid to have begun with the Greeks.Of course, all their learning might have disappeared for good during the six or sevencenturies of the Dark Ages. But the Arabs were also interested in science, and they were at theedge of the Dark Ages, so they were able to preserve the findings of the Greeks, translatingsome of their work and even building on it. When science finally took root again in the MiddleAges it was based very much on the ideas and work of the Greeks.
46. What's this passage mainly about?
(A) The Arabs copied the Greek ideas.
(B) Much of Greek science was lost in the Dark Ages.
(C) Much of modern science is based on the work of the ancient Greeks.
(D) The findings of the ancient Greeks were re-found a millennium later.6

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答案：C
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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