单选题 The advancement of science and technology has demonstrated that a fact appearing to contradict to certain theory may actually be ______ a more advanced formulation of that theory.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 词组辨析。根据句中的appearing to(似乎是……)，actually(实际上)提供的信息判定，空格应填入与contradict to意思相反的词组。选项中，只有consistent with(符合；与……一致)符合要求。故答案为A。