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But at the time Darwin’s book caused a conceptual earthquake. It wholly decries all ideas, from whatever religion ornone, which up to that time had taken it for granted that humankind was special, superior and apart. In the course of doing this,in a book of striking clarity and easy access, Darwin forced a profound rethink of the workings of life, just as Newton’sdiscoveries forced a rethink of the workings of the universe. It exerted and still exerts a radical impact on scholarship and on allthe ramifications of the information society we now acknowledge to be so important. It has had a great influence on politicalphilosophies ever since, often through willful but not altogether blind misunderstanding, for the worse. And it has been seen asthe destroyer of the Christian, even the humanitarian and atheistic, justification for morality and ethics.According to Daniel Dennett, Professor of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, Massachusetts: “If I could give anaward for the single best idea anybody ever had, I would give it to Darwin, because his idea just unifies in a stroke these twocompletely disparate worlds, until then, of the meaningless mechanical physical sciences, astronomy, physics and chemistry onthe one side and the world of meaning, culture, art and of course the world of biology. One stroke shows how to unify all thesciences.” Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, says,“[Darwin] discovered a principle which with hindsight seems enormously simple; it is hard to believe that anybody did notthink of it before and yet nobody did, not really.”
46. In the first paragraph, the word “decries” means _____.
(A) expresses
(B) implements
(C) illustrates
(D) discounts
(E) extols

參考答案

答案：D
難度：困難0.333333
統計：A(1),B(0),C(0),D(1),E(0)

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