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The table before which we sit may be, as the scientist maintains, composed of dancing atoms, but it does not reveal itself to us as anything of the kind, and it is not with dancing atoms but a solid and motionless object that we live. So remote is this “real” table-and most of the other “realities” with which science deals- that it cannot be discussed in terms which have any human value, and though it may receive our purely intellectual credence it cannot be woven into the pattern of life as it is led, in contradistinction to life as we attempt to think about it. Vibrations in the ether are so totally unlike, let us say, the color purple that the gulf between them cannot be bridged, and they are, to all intents and purposes, not one but two separate things of which the second and less “real” must be the most significant for us. And just as the sensation which has led us to attribute an objective reality to a non-existent thing which we call “purple” is more important for human life than the conception of vibrations of a certain frequency, so too the belief in God, however ill founded, has been more important in the life of man than the germ theory of decay, however true the latter may be.
We may, if we like, speak of consequence, as certain mystics love to do, of the different levels or orders of truth. We may adopt what is essentially a Platonistic trick of thought and insist upon postulating the existence of external realities which correspond to the needs and modes of human feeling and which, so we may insist, have their being in some part the universe unreachable by science. But to do so is to make an unwarrantable assumption and to be guilty of the metaphysical fallacy of failing to distinguish between a truth of feeling and that other sort of truth which is described as a “truth of correspondence”, and it is better perhaps, at least for those of us who have grown up in an age of scientific thought, to steer clear of such confusions and to rest content with the admission that, though the universe with which science deals is the real universe, yet we do not and cannot have any but fleeting and imperfect contacts with it; that the most important part of our lives — our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations — takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
1. What is the topic of this passage?
2. According to the passage, a scientist would conceive of a “table” as being ______.
3. As far as the “scientific” world and “illusionary” world are concerned, the author suggests that in our lives we should ______.
4. By “objective reality’’, the author means ______.
5. Which of the following best concludes the passage?
6. The word “attenuate” (last line) most probably means “______”.

问题1选项
A.A scientific approach to living.
B.The place of scientific truth in our lives.
C.The confusion of reality by science.
D.The confusion caused by emotions.
问题2选项
A.very remote
B.a form fixed in space and time
C.a mass of atoms in motion
D.anything that has human value
问题3选项
A.accept our world as being one of illusion
B.apply the scientific method
C.establish a truth of correspondence
D.learn to appreciate both
问题4选项
A.symbolic existence
B.the viewer’s experience
C.reality colored by emotion
D.scientific reality
问题5选项
A.As far as our experience goes, objects are solid, not composed of atoms.
B.Though our sense of color is more important in our lives, it has nothing to do with reality.
C.Scientific conceptions of reality have no significant function in our lives.
D.It is best if we rest content with the idea that there are other forms of reality, however ill-founded.
问题6选项
A.continue
B.weaken
C.utilize
D.correspond
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