四川大学2007年考博英语真题

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Ⅰ. Reading Comprehension (30%, 1 mark each)

Passage 1

Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Callileo's 17"century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Churchi or poet William -Blakes harsh-remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanities, if anything, deepened in the 20th century.

Unti recently, the scientific community wss so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics-budno longer. As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked antiscience in several books, notably Higher Superstition by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University: and The Demom-haumted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornel University.

Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as"The Flight from Science and Reason, "held in New York City in 1995, and"Science in the Age of Information, " which assembled last June near Buffalo.

Antiscience clearly means different things to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned in sciences objectivity. Sagan is more concemed with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.

A surver of news stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the_ last remaining stocks of smallpox Virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.

Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scoms science and longs for retum to a pre-technological utopia. Bur surely that does not mean environmentalists concemed about uncontrolled industrial growth are antiscience, as an essay in US News World Report last May seemed to suggest.

The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics. The true enemies of scienc argues Paul Ehrlish of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences ofindustrial growth.

Indeed, some observers fear that the antiscience epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless. "The term "antiscience can lump together too many, quite different thing notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Hol on in his 1993 work Science and Anti-science. "They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselwes as more enlightened."

1. The wordchism (Paragraph 1)in the context probably means

A)confrontation   B)dissatisfaction

C) separation      D)contempt

2. Paragraphs 2 and 3 are written to

A)discuss the cause of the decline of sciences power

B)show the authors sympathy with scientists

C) explain the way in which science develops

D) exemplify the division of science and the humanities

3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A)Environmentalists were blamed for antiscience in an essay

B)Politicians are not subjective to the labeling of antiscience

C)Themore enlightened tend o tag others as antiscience

D) Tagging environmentalists as"antiscience"is justifiable

4. The authior takes Paul R. Gross book Higher Superstition as an illustration to show that

A) traitional culture would greatly affect the development of science

B)science is no longer ulnerable to be attacked

C) different people may have diffetent interpretation on science

D)scientific commumity has become powerful enough to defend any critics against

5. The author s attitude toward the issue ofscience vs antiscience" is

A)impartial  B)subjective   C) biased  D)puzzling