It seems first to have broken possession of a few minds in the s

It seems first to have broken possession of a few minds in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as an accompaniment of the great advances in pure science.
A、It seems first that few people thought of the idea in the 17th and 18th centuries as the pure science developed greatly.
B、It seems first that many people had the idea in the 17th and 18th centuries as the pure science developed greatly.
C、It seems first that some people had the idea in the 17th and 18th centuries that the pure science developed greatly.
D、It seems first that any people had not the idea in the 17th and 18th centuries as the pure science developed greatly.
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：根据四个选项可知,此题的关键在于理解break possession of a few minds的含义。minds在此可指代人，a few指“几个"，此句中指“很少有几个人拥有的想法”。“很少有几个，没有几个”一般用few表达，而some指"一些"，many指"很多”，any在此是some的否定用法，也指“任何，一些”，因此均不符合题意。只有选项A的few与题干意思一致。答案为A。