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When speaking of mathematics in East Asia, it is necessary to describe its development in China, Korea, and Japan as a whole. Mathematicians from these countries can be considered as part of the same mathematical community. Besides, these scholars usually wrote with Chinese characters and thus could read one another's texts.
The common basis for the development of mathematics in East Asia was books that were written in China from the 1st through the 13th century, to which most of the later works refer. For this period, the two main sources, the references found in the texts and those given in a list of books arranged for the dynastic annals(朝代编年史)indicate that there are many lacunae(空白) in the books that have existed. The oldest existing works survived because they became official books.
In the 17th century few ancient Chinese mathematical works were known, and those that were known were not fully understood. Afterwards, as Chinese mathematicians began to realize European achievements, they began to look for such works throughout the country. Editions of the texts they found began to appear at the end of the 18th century and have become the main sources for the history of Chinese mathematics. Discoveries of new sources are now rare。contrary to the situation for Arabic mathematics, for example. However, in the 20th century a mathematical book was discovered in a grave dating from the 2nd or 3rd century, which pushed back by more than three centuries what was previously known about the subject.
1．Which of the following statements is TRUE?
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A．Ancient China, Korea and Japan shared the same tradition in mathematical study.
B．Many Chinese, Korean and Japanese mathematicians used to work in the same community.
C．The ancient Chinese, Korean and Japanese mathematicians led the world in the field of mathematics.
D．Ancient Korean and Japanese mathematicians learned mathematics from their Chinese teachers.
2．The source of mathematics is traced back to books written _____.
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A．in China
B．in Japan
C．in Korea
D．in all the three countries
3．When Chinese mathematicians came to know European mathematics, they _____.
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A．found the Chinese mathematics history was longer than they had known
B．found ancient Chinese mathematics better than western mathematics
C．began to search for Chinese mathematics achievements in history literature
D．began to write books in mathematics in Chinese
4．The best title for the passage is _____.
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A．Mathematics in China
B．Mathematies in Ancient China
C．Mathematics in Ancient Asia
D．The Origin of Mathematics
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1. 解析：从文章第一段得知,中国,日本和韩国在数学领域有共同的传统。 答案：A 2. 解析：文章第二段第一句话说明东亚数学的发展都基于中国出版的书籍。 答案：A 3. 解析：从第三段第二句可知，数学家们开始在全国范围内收集数学研究方面的成就。 答案：C 4. 解析：综合全文的内容可知，本文主要讲的是东亚的数学。 答案：C |
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