单选题
To a person______natural history, his coun-try or seaside stroll is a walk t,hrough a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】If nine-tenths of the works of art in the gallery have their faces turned to the wall, then the visitor to the gallery has no clue whatsoever to what wonders they contain. Similarly, a per-son uninstructed in natural history wanders through the world with no clue whatsoever to nine-tenths of the natural wonders that sur-round him.
单选题
A ______ of recent cases of scientific fraud in which gross errors of fact and logic have slipped past the review panels that scrutinize submissions to journals suggests that the review system is seri-ously
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】A spate or flood of examples of fraud suggests that the review system intended to catch such frauds is severely taxed or burdened.