复合题

Directions: Please read the following passages and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage. Use only the information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your Answer Sheet.

(1) What are those of us who have chosen careers in science and engineering able to do about our current problems?

(2) First, we can help destroy the false impression that science and engineering have caused the current world troubles. On the contrary, science and engineering have made vast contributions to better living for more people. Second, we can identify the many areas in which science and technology, more considerably used, can be of greater service in the future than in the past to improve the quality of life. While we can make many speeches, and pass many laws, the quality of our environment will be improved only through better knowledge and better application of that knowledge. Third, we can recognize that much of the dissatisfaction we suffer today results from our very successes of former years. We have been so greatly successful in attaining material goals that we are deeply dissatisfied that we cannot attain other goals more rapidly. We have achieved a better life for most people, but we are unhappy that we have not spread it to all people. We have reduced many sources of environmental disasters, but we are unhappy that we have not conquered all of them. It is our raised expectation rather than our failures which now cause our distress.
(3) Granted that many of our current problems must be cured more by social, political, and economic instruments than by science and technology, yet science and technology must still be the tools to make further advances in such things as clean air, clean water, better transportation, better housing, better medical care, more adequate welfare programs, purer food, conservation of resources, and many other areas. 

问答题 According to the author, why are people dissatisfied now? 
【正确答案】Because we expect too much of science and technology at present.
【答案解析】由第二段第三点“It is our raised expectation rather than our failures which now cause our distress. ” 可知, 主要是由于我们以前(利用科学与技术) 取得的成就, 我们对现状不满。 真正使我们感到不满的不是我们的失败, 而是我们对自己的期望提高了。
问答题 According to the author, how could people improve the quality of our environment? 
【正确答案】People can use better knowledge of science and technology.
【答案解析】第二段第二点指出, “the quality of our environment will be improved only through better knowledge and better application of that knowledge” , 即 只有通过更先进的知识(科学与技术知识) 及其应用, 环境才能改善。 
问答题 According to the author, what can science and technology do about our current problems? 
【正确答案】Science and technology do little about our current problems
【答案解析】文章最后一段指出, “many of our current problems must be cured more by social, political, and economic instruments than by science and technology” , 即 我们目前的许多问题可以通过社会、 政策、 经济而不是科技手段解决。