第8题: [单项选择]As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman made ______ the discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed. A. distinct B. substantial C. noticeable D. significant 参考答案:C 答案解析:[考点] 形容词词义辨析。解析noticeable显而易见的,显著的,值得(引人)注意的,重要的;distinct不同的,独特的,清晰的,明显的,难得的;substantial物质的,实质的,坚固的,