Question

Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher ( 哲學(xué)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 old	B．106years old
C．40 years old	D．46 years old

【小題2】The meaning of the underlined word “complicated” in the last paragraph is “ ____________”.

A．not difficult

B．not simple

C．not famous

D．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

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】B
【小題3】D

解析試題分析：
【小題1】A 計(jì)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(rèn)為的要多得多，故該詞應(yīng)該指復(fù)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(xué)的發(fā)展做了很大的貢獻(xiàn)，故D正確。
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