单选题 Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo's 17th century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake's harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanities has, if anything, deepened in this century.
Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics—but no longer. As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked "antiscience" in several books, notably Higher Superstition, by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.
Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "the Flight from Science and Reason", held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of (Mis) information", which assembled last June near Buffalo.
Antiscience clearly means different things to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned science's objectivity. Sagan is more concerned with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.
A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pre-technological 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 'anti-science' can lump together too many, quite different things," notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Antiscience. "They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened. /

单选题 The word "schism" (Line 4, Paragraph 1) probably means ______.
A.hostility B.separation
C.contempt D.dissatisfaction
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 词义推测题。文章第一句即指出,科学与文化其他方面的关系长久以来一直很不稳定,而在该段最后一句又说科学与人文学科之间的这种schism在本世纪加深了。由这两处即可知该词应当与两者之间的“关系”有关。而由后面段落的说明可以看出,作者论述的重点是科学与人文学科之间距离的拉大。因此选separation(分离)。
单选题 The second and third paragraphs are mainly about ______.
A.the decline of science's power
B.the examples of separation between science and the humanities
C.the development of science
D.the author's sympathy with scientists
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 主旨题。文章第二段举出了两个例子,表明一些科学家开始对“反科学”态度进行攻击;第三段则举出了一些会议的例子表明一些科学捍卫者的行动。由前后文之间的关系可以看出,这两种人都表示出对科学与人文学科之间日趋分离状况的担忧。B项最能概括这两段的主旨。
单选题 Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Environmentalists were blamed for antiscience in an essay.
B.Politicians are subject to the labeling of antiscience.
C.The "more enlightened" tend to tag others as antiscience.
D.Tagging environmentalists as "antiscience" is justifiable.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 分析推理题。文章第七段第一句指出,The environmentalists…respond to such critics(环保主义者们对这些批评作出了回应),表明他们是受到了批评,故A项是对的。其余选项都无法由文意推知。
单选题 The author's attitude toward the issue of "science vs antiscience" is ______.
A.impartial B.subjective
C.biased D.confused
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 分析推理题。通读全文可以看出,作者只是客观地论述科学家与人文学科专家之间各自不同的观点,并没有流露出作者个人的主观态度,故A项“公平的,不偏不倚的”是本题答案。
单选题 According to Paul Ehrlich of Standford University, who are the true enemies of science?
A.Those who have questioned science's objectivity.
B.Those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.
C.Those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
D.Those who scorn science and long for returning to a pre-technological utopia.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。答案信息对应倒数第二段后一句:The true enemies of science…are those who question…of industrial growth。C项与该句的表述完全一致。