考研英語閱讀理解命題思路透析和真題揭秘(10)

1996年Passage 5

　　Rumor has it that more than 20 books on creationism/evolution are in the publisher's pipelines. A few have already appeared. The goal of all will be to try to explain to a confused and often unenlightened citizenry that there are not two equally valid scientific theories for the origin and evolution of universe and life. Cosmology , geology , and biology have provided a consistent , unified, and constantly improving account of what happened. "Scientific" creationism, which is being pushed by some for "equal time" in the classrooms whenever the scientific accounts of evolution are evil, is based on religion, not science. Virtually all scientists and the majority of nonfunda mentalist religious leaders have come to regard "scientific" creationism as bad science and bad religion.

　　The first four chapters of Kitcher's book give a very brief introduction to evolution. At appropriate places, he introduces the criticisms of the creationists and provides answers. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programmes and tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise. When their basic motivation is religious, one might have expected more Christian behavior.

　　Kitcher is a philosopher, and this may account, in part, for the clarity and effectiveness of
his arguments. The nonspecialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and
argument that support evolutionary theory. The final chapter on the creationists will be extremely clear to all. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-and all would be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.

70. This passage appears to be a digest of__
[A]a book review               
[B]a scientific paper
[C]a magazine feature        
[D] a newspaper editorial

[答案] A

[解題思路]

本題考察文章的來源，實際上也就是對中心思想的考查。綜合全文，尤其是每段的第一句話、以及文章對Kitcher這本書的大量評論，可見文章是一篇書評，A為正確選項。

[題目譯文]

這篇文章是一片                  的摘要。
[A] 書評
[B] 科學論文
[C] 雜志上的特別文章
[D] 報紙社論