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