文档介绍：中国科学技术大学2007年博士研究生入学考试英语试题
PAPER ONE
SECTIONⅠ PREHENSION (30 points)
Directions:
There are 5 passages in this passage is followed by some questions or unfinished each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and should decide on the best choice and then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passage:
Studying science within a social and political context is not part of current scientific training in the ,scientists believe that they are studying “knowledge for knowledge’s sake.”They work within a social structure petition and reward that encourages pursuit of recognition of colleagues and prestige at the expense of humanness.
Scientists undergo long years of students,for example,do approximately 3-5 years of post—undergraduate work and frequently an additional 2-3 years of post doctoral study before starting a job at the lowest level of the so—called professional the beginning the scientist is trained in the scientific method,which teaches one to isolate an object for study,to analyze its internal workings,to formulate laws about the isolation of the object and the method used to examine it, at parts rather than the whole,reinforce piecemeal rather prehensive would not be possible for science to appear“neutral”if it were viewed as part of the cultural and social institutions that support,create and encourage as it is currently practiced is concerned with validity and not with is pursuit of knowledge regardless of moral consideration.
Long years of training in reductionist thinking produces scientists who are experts,special people who are thought to be more knowledgeable,rational,precise and brighter than scientist es a “professional “isolated mon people and often unable to talk with others unlike “professionalism”allows the scientist to di