Unit 7: Artificial Intelligent - Project

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.  MODERN SCIENCE It seems entirely (1) ____ to us that there are teams of scientists in universities and (2) ____ institutions around the world, attempting to (3) ____ the way the world works. However, it hasn't always been that (4) ____. Although the scientific method is now four or five hundred years old, the ancient Greeks, for example, believed that they could work out the (5) ____ of natural events just by the power of thought. During the 17th century, more and more people began to realize that they could (6) ____ their scientific ideas by designing a relevant (7) ____ and seeing what happened. A lot of (8) ____ was made in this way by individual scientists. These men and women often worked alone, carrying out (9) ____ into many different areas of science, and they often received very little (10) ____ for their hard work. At the start of the 20th century, though, it became clear that science was becoming more complicated and more expensive. This individual scientist disappeared, to be replaced by highly qualified teams of experts. Modern science was born.