Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modernworld? Surely because progress of particular kind is actuallytaking place around us and is more and more manifesting. __1__ Although mankind has undergone no generalimprovement in intelligence or morality, it has madeextraordinary progress in the accumulation of knowledge.Knowledge begins to increase as soon __2__ as the thoughts ofone individual could be communicated to another by mean of speech. With the invention __3__ofwriting, knowledge could be communicated and stored. Libraries made education possible, andeducation in turn added libraries: the growth of knowledge __4__ followed a kind of compound-interest law, which was greatly enhanced by the invention of printing. All this was comparativelyslow until, with the coming of science, the tempo was suddenly risen. __5__ Then knowledgebegan to be accumulated according to a systematic plan. However, as soon as new knowledge isacquired, __6__ it is now turned to practical account. What is called “modern civilization”is not theresult of a balanced development of all man’s nature,but not of accumulated knowledge applied topractical __7__ life. The problem now facing humanity is: What is going to be done with all thisknowledge? Like is often pointed out, knowledge is a two edged __8__ weapon which could beused equally for good or evil. It is now being __9__ frequently used indifferently for both. Couldany spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that gunners using science to shatter__10__ men’s bodies while, close at hand, surgeons use it to restore them.
參考答案及解析:
1、manifesting→manifest
2、begins→begin
3、mean→means
4、added后加 to
5、risen →raised
6、However→ Moreover
7、But 后面的not去掉
8、Like →As
9、Could→ can
10、That后面加of