Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher ( 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(zhì) ) 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 )”.
小題1:Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about _______________.
A．94 years oldB．106years old
C．40 years oldD．46 years old
小題2:The meaning of the underlined word “complicated” in the last paragraph is “ ____________”.
A．not difficult B．not simpleC．not famousD．not different
小題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

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D

試題分析：
小題1:A 計算題。根據(jù)Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.)說明他出生與公元前640年，死于公元前546年，故活了大約94歲。A正確。
小題2:B 猜測詞義題。根據(jù)But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements ( 元素 )”說明名單上列出來的物質(zhì)的數(shù)量要比人們原來認為的要多得多，故該詞應該指復雜，故B正確。
小題3:D 推理題。根據(jù)文章3,4段說明希臘的思想家們做了很多的推測和想象，為科學的發(fā)展做了很大的貢獻，故D正確。
點評：文章介紹了科學的起源以及希臘的思想家們對于科學的探索和他們對科學的發(fā)展做出的貢獻。本文內(nèi)容較為簡單，只要讀懂文章，根據(jù)題目要求定位考查點即可。
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