Carl Sagan

“No one has ever succeeded in conveying the wonder.. and joy of science as widely ..and few as well.” that praise was given on Carl Sagan when he was honored with (荣获)the public Welfare Medal， the highest award given by the National Academy of Science. On 20 December 1996, Carl Sagan died at age of 62 of pneumonia（肺炎）. In my experience, he was much more than a prominent populariser. He was a brilliant scientist with solid achievements.

I first met Sagan at a meeting of the AAAS –the American Association for the Advancement of science – where he took part in a session on the Viking Mars Project. when Viking landed on Mars  in 1976, it was  at a site he had helped select. Then I interviewed him in Washington, D.C., after Mariner had sent spectacular pictures of the Martian surface. Sagan  had acted as a head of one of Mariner’s imaging teams. The interview, “Close-up photos Reveal a Turbulent Mars,” appeared in Popular Science in September 1972.

I had originally headlined the story “The red planet isn’t dead,” but Sagan asked me to change it. “I’m in enough hot water with some of my colleagues as it is, ” he said, referring to the anger felt by some scientists over his growing fame as a populariser. That fame reached a zenith（顶点） during his 1980 13-part television series “Cosmos,” with an audience of 400 million people in 60 countries. Along the way, he captured Pulitzer Prize for his book The Dragons of Eden.来源：考试大

He was noted for the vigor of his logic style, especially when criticizing some piece of pseudoscience. I remembered at 1973 AAAS meeting at which he destroyed the theories of Immanual Velikovsky, who was maintaining that only a few thousands of years ago, Venus had repeatedly collided with Earth and Mars; events well noted, Velikosky said, in the bible.

Sagan was often heard observing that drawings of flying saucers（碟子）never included a door. “How did those creatures of outer space get in and out?” he once asked. Once he said that pserdo-science （包含E中的核心词汇）is embraced（包括） in exact proportion as real science in misunderstood. 来源：考试大

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A.    Sagan as a Science Populariser（科学普及作家）来源：考试大
B.    Honor Sagan enjoyed
C.    Sagan’s publications
D.    Description of the First meeting with Sagan
E.    Sagan’s criticism on pseudo-science（伪科学）来源：考试大
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1.    In Sagan’s opinion, Velikovsy might be ___________.来源：考试大
2.    With Cosmos and others, Sagan enjoyed his fame as _______.
3.    From the passage, we may conclude that the author of the passage may be ____.
4.    From the description we know that Sagan was _______.
A.    a member of the National Academy of Science来源：考试大

B. a pseudo-scientist来源：考试大
C. a science populariser来源：考试大
D. a reporter
E. an astronomer
F  a physicist