[外语类试卷]专业英语八级(阅读)模拟试卷72及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级(阅读)模拟试卷 72及答案与解析 SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. 0 In las
2、t weeks Tribune, there was an interesting letter from Mr. J. Stewart Cook, in which he suggested that the best way of avoiding the danger of a“ scientific hierarchy“ would be to see to it that every member of the general public was, as far as possible, scientifically educated. At the same time, scie
3、ntists should be brought out of their isolation and encouraged to take a greater part in politics and administration. As a general statement, I think most of us would agree with this, but I notice that, as usual, Mr. Cook does not define science, and merely implies in passing that it means certain e
4、xact sciences whose experiments can be made under laboratory conditions. Thus, adult education tends“to neglect scientific studies in favor of literary, economic and social subjects“,economics and sociology not being regarded as branches of science, apparently. This point is of great importance. For
5、 the word science is at present used in at least two meanings, but the whole question of scientific education is obscured by the current tendency to dodge from one meaning to the other. Science is generally taken as meaning either(a) the exact sciences, such as chemistry, physics, etc. ,or(b) a meth
6、od of thought which obtains verifiable results by reasoning logically from observed fact. If you ask any scientist, or indeed almost any educated person, “What is science?“ you are likely to get an answer approximating to(b). In everyday life, however, both in speaking and in writing, when people sa
7、y “science“they mean(a). Science means something that happens in a laboratory: test-tubes, balances, Bunsen burners, microscopes. A biologist, an astronomer, perhaps a psychologist or a mathematician, is described as a “man of science“ : no one would think of applying this term to a statesman, a poe
8、t, a journalist or even a philosopher. And those who tell us that the young must be scientifically educated mean, almost invariably, that they should be taught more about radioactivity, or the stars, or the physiology of their own bodies, rather than that they should be taught to think more exactly.
9、 This confusion of meaning, which is partly deliberate, has in it a great danger. Implied in the demand for more scientific education is the claim that if one has been scientifically trained ones approach to all subjects will be more intelligent than if one had had no such training. A scientists pol
10、itical opinions, it is assumed, his opinions on sociological questions, on morals, on philosophy, perhaps even on the arts, will be more valuable than those of a layman. But a“ scientist“, as we have just seen, means in practice a specialist in one of the exact sciences. It follows that a chemist or
11、 physicist, as such, is politically more intelligent than a poet or a lawyer. And, in fact, there are already millions of people who do believe this. But is it really true that a “scientist“ ,in this narrower sense, is any likelier than other people to approach non-scientific problems in an objectiv
12、e way? There is not much reason for flunking so. Take one simple test the ability to withstand nationalism. It is often loosely said that “Science is international“, but in practice the scientific workers of all countries line up behind their own governments with fewer scruples than are felt by the
13、writers and the artists. The German scientific community, as a whole, made no resistance to Hitler. There were plenty of gifted men to do the necessary research on such things as synthetic oil, jet planes, rocket projectiles and the atomic bomb. On the other hand, what happened to German literature
14、when the Nazis came to power? I believe no exhaustive lists have been published, but I imagine that the number of German scientists Jew apart who voluntarily exiled themselves or were persecuted by the regime was much smaller than the number of writers and journalists. More sinister than this, a num
15、ber of German scientists swallowed the monstrosity of “racial science“. But does this mean that the general public should not be more scientifically educated? On the contrary! All it means is that scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils
16、 down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc. to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess: and his political reacti
17、ons would probably be somewhat less intelligent than those of an illiterate peasant who retained a few historical memories and a fairly sound aesthetic sense. Clearly, scientific education ought to mean the implanting of a rational, skeptical, experimental habit of mind. It ought to mean acquiring a
18、 method a method that can be used on any problem that one meets and not simply piling up a lot of facts. Put it in those words, and the apologist of scientific education will usually agree. Press him further, ask him to particularize, and somehow it always turns out that scientific education means m
19、ore attention to the exact sciences, in other words more facts. The idea that science means a way of looking at the world, and not simply a body of knowledge, is in practice strongly resisted. I think sheer professional jealousy is part of the reason for this. 1 We know from the second paragraph tha
20、t the author considers the present definition of the word “science“_. ( A) ambiguous ( B) ambivalent ( C) questionable ( D) inappropriate 2 When people are talking about science, they may NOT refer to_. ( A) physics ( B) physiology ( C) philosophy ( D) psychology 3 Which of the following is INCORREC
21、T as regards scientists? ( A) Many people assume that scientists can do well in handling political affairs. ( B) German scientists did research on atomic bombs. ( C) Generally people dont regard an economist as a scientist. ( D) Scientists prefer laboratory work to administration. 4 The author contr
22、asts German science with German literature to support his viewpoint that,_. ( A) German literature has long been persecuted by the government ( B) writers are the most disruptive force of a government ( C) scientists are more inclined to support their governments than writers ( D) German scientists
23、should not be on the side of the racists 5 The passage can be best summarized as_. ( A) contrasting science with literature ( B) explaining what science is ( C) giving a better definition of science ( D) pointing out peoples misunderstanding of science 5 As I write, a gentle, much needed rain is fal
24、ling this morning. It has been a dry spring here in Vermont. So dry in fact, that the Spring Peepers were late enough in coming that many thought that these amazing little frogs would fail to bless us with their song this year. But they came, and I cant fault them for being tardy. In almost any seas
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