A  Sagan as a Science Populariser（科学普及作家）来源：考试大
C Sagan’s publications
E  Sagan’s criticism on pseudo-science（伪科学）

4 　Paragraph 5__________.

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.

E  分析:包含备选项E中核心词的句意与E的含义一致，又因为该句的位置特殊:段落的最后句，因此判断答案为E。

补充:来源：考试大
observe vt, vi注意到；看到；遵守；
e.g. They were observed entering the bank. 有人看到他们进入银行。来源：考试大
Embrace vt 拥抱，包括，包含
e.g.The child embraced his parents. 这孩子拥抱了他的父母。来源：考试大
e.g.This book embraces many subjects. 此书包括许多问题。
Exact: adj. 精确的, 准确的, 原样的, 精密的, 严格来源：考试大
Synonyms: accurate, correct, precise

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
D. a reporter来源：考试大
E. an astronomer
F  a physicist

5　In Sagan’s opinion, Velikovsy might be ___________.来源：考试大

B.分析:利用题干中的特征词作为答案线索，这样发现答案相关句:确认答案。

He was noted for the vigor（活力） of his logic style, especially when criticizing some pieces of pseudo-science. I remembered a 1973 AAAS meeting at which he destroyed the theories of Immanual Velikovsy, who was maintaining that only ..

A. a member of the National Academy of Science
C. a science populariser来源：考试大
D. a reporter
E. an astronomer
F  a physicist

6 　With Cosmos and others, Sagan enjoyed his fame as ______.

C  分析:根据句意和在解答前面问题时对文章的了解判断C是答案。也可借助cosmos作为答案线索这样发现答案相关句:

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（该句子结构与F呼应）, ” 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.

该题考察代词结构That fame的前指代动能和其指代的内容。 来源：考试大

A. a member of the National Academy of Science
D. a reporter
E. an astronomer
F a physicist

7　From the passage, we may conclude that the author of the passage may be _______.

D  分析:在文章第2段中发现相关句，而相关句中的关键词interviewed暗示答案为D。

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.,

该题考察考生根据细节事实进行推断的能力。来源：考试大

A. a member of the National Academy of Science
E. an astronomer
F a physicist来源：考试大

8　From the description we know that Sagan was ______________.

E． 分析:根据文章中相关句的句意推测出答案E。来源：考试大

That fame reached a zenith（顶点） during his 1980 13-part television series “Cosmos,”（“宇宙学”应该是天文学家的研究工作） with an audience of 400 million people in 60 countries.

该题考察考生根据细节事实进行推断的能力。来源：考试大