Đọc hiểu -TOEFL- Bài 48
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Science as we know it today can be said to have started with the ancient1. What's the main point the author is making in this passage?
Greeks, with the likes of Herodotus, Aristotle and Theophrastus,
all of whom lived from 300 to 500 years before Christ.
5 Their findings were still valid two millenniums later, when science
was reborn with the Renaissance following the Dark Ages when after
the fall of Rome, roughly 1000 years after the Greeks created their
scientific theories, science and learning were forgotten during the
ravages of war and disease which enveloped the whole of the then
10 civilized world.
Geology, even mineralogy, can be traced back to the Greeks. They recognized
that the position of the land and sea had changed and that a great
length of time had been necessary for these changes. They believed
15 the world was round, that the orbits of planets were also circular
and they noticed that heavy objects fell faster than light ones.
So, more sciences than one can be said to have begun with the Greeks.
Of course, all their learning might have disappeared for good during
20 the six or seven centuries of the Dark Ages. But the Arabs were also
interested in science, and they were at the edge of the Dark Ages,
so they were able to preserve the findings of the Greeks, translating
some of their work and even building on it. When science finally
took root again in the Middle Ages it was based very much on the
25 ideas and work of the Greeks.
2. According to the passage what was the reason science had to make a recovery?
3. According to the passage which of the following was NOT among the findings made by the Greeks?
4. Why were the Arabs able to preserve the findings of the Greeks?
5. What might the next part of the lecture be about?
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