考研英語閱讀理解命題思路透析和真題揭秘(26)

1998年P(guān)assage 3
 
　　Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo'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 Verginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon Haunted World, by Car 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, those manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pretechnological 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 ‘a(chǎn)ntiscience' can lump together too many, quite different things," notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti Science. "They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened."

59. The word "schism" (Line 4, Paragraph 1) in the context probably means _____ .
[A] confrontation
[B] dissatisfaction
[C] separation
[D] contempt

[答案] C

[解題思路]

　　首先文章的第一段就談到"Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture"（科學(xué)與文化的其他方面的關(guān)系一直都很緊張）可見schism指的就是這種uneasy relationship。而B、D選項都不是表示雙方的關(guān)系，只是單方面的態(tài)度，因此可以排除。而A選項的程度與文章uneasy也不符合。文章的后面幾段展開了詳細的關(guān)于兩者之間如何分化、分離的例子，因此只有C選項是符合原文的。

[題目譯文]

文中"schism"（第一段第三行）的意思可能是          。
[A] 對峙
[B] 不滿
[C] 分離
[D] 蔑視