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[单项选择]The rate at which man has been storing up useful knowledge about himself and the universe has been spiraling upward for 10,000 years.
The (21) took a sharp upward leap with the invention of writing, but even (22) it remained painfully slow over centuries of time. The next great leap forward (23) knowledge acquisition did not occur (24) the invention of movable type in the 15th century by Gutenberg and others. (25) to 1500, by the most optimistic (26) Europe was producing books at a rate of 1,000 titles per year. This means that it (27) a full century to produce a library of 100,000 titles. By 1950, four and a half (28) later, the rate had accelerated so sharply that Europe was producing 120,000 titles a year. (29) once took a century now took only ten months. By 1960, a (30) decade later, the rate had made another significant jump, (31) a century’s work could
A. accumulation
B. development
C. knowledge
D. rate