《考研英语阅读命题思路透析和真题揭秘》1998年Passage 3(2)

印建坤 群言出版社/2008-10-04

  Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unabomber, those manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pretechnological utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned 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 science, argues Paul Ehrlich 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 of industrial 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 things,” notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton 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 themselves as more enlightened.”

  59. The word “schism” (Line 4, Paragraph 1) in the context probably means _____ .

  [A] confrontation

  [B] dissatisfaction

  [C] separation

  [D] contempt

  [答案] C

  [解题思路]

  首先文章的第一段就谈到“Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture”(科学与文化的其他方面的关系一直都很紧张)可见schism指的就是这种uneasy relationship。而B、D选项都不是表示双方的关系,只是单方面的态度,因此可以排除。而A选项的程度与文章uneasy也不符合。文章的后面几段展开了详细的关于两者之间如何分化、分离的例子,因此只有C选项是符合原文的。

  [题目译文]

  文中“schism”(第一段第三行)的意思可能是 。

  [A] 对峙

  [B] 不满

  [C] 分离

  [D] 蔑视

   


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