更多"Before the nineteenth century, scie"的相关试题:
[单项选择]Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between.
Certainly Newton considered some theoretical’ aspects of it in his writings, but he was (26) to go to sea to (27) his work.
For most people the sea was (28) , and with the (29) of early international travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, (30) alone to ask what lay beneath the surface. The flint time that the question "What is at the bottom of the oceans " had to be answered with any commercial (31) was when the (32) of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed. The engineers had to know the depth profile of the (33) to estimate the length of cable that had to be (34) .
It was (35) Maury of the US Navy (36) the Atlantic Telegraph Company turned, in 1853, (37) in
A. reluctant
B. irreluctant
C. reductant
D. redundant