Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher ( 希臘哲學(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．106 years oldB．94years oldC．64 years oldD．46 years old
小題2:From the passage we know that __________.
A．Thales asked many questionsB．Greeks were all philosophers
C．science began long agoD．water and air make up all things.
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:B
小題2:C
小題3:D

試題分析：本文講述的是科學(xué)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(shí)候？科學(xué)就出現(xiàn)了。并講述了希臘人對(duì)這個(gè)問(wèn)題的研究。
小題1:B 計(jì)算題。根據(jù)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(shí)候去世的。故B正確。
小題2:C 推理題。根據(jù)文章第一段Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher ( 希臘哲學(xué)家 ) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?可知在古希臘的時(shí)候，Thales提出了這個(gè)問(wèn)題，科學(xué)就出現(xiàn)了。故C正確。
小題3:D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)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(xué)家都對(duì)這個(gè)問(wèn)題進(jìn)行了探討，對(duì)于科技的發(fā)展做出了巨大的貢獻(xiàn)。故D正確。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文講述的是科學(xué)起源的話題。在解題時(shí)要立足已知，推斷未知。立足現(xiàn)在，猜測(cè)未來(lái)。不能主觀臆想，憑空想象，隨意揣測(cè)，更不能以自己的觀點(diǎn)代替作者的觀點(diǎn);要把握句、段之間的邏輯關(guān)系，了解語(yǔ)篇的結(jié)構(gòu)。要體會(huì)文章的基調(diào)，揣摸作者的態(tài)度，摸準(zhǔn)邏輯發(fā)展的方向，悟出作者的弦外之音。
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