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Final Examination

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Part II



Reading Comprehension (30 %)



Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed
by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheetwith a single line through
the center.



Passage One



Science is not a set of unquestionable results but a way of understanding
the world around us. Its real work is slow. The scientific method , as many of
us learned in school, is a gradual process that begins with a purpose or
problem or question to be answered. It includes a list of materials, a
procedure to follow, a set of observations to make and, finally, conclusions
to reach. In medicine, when a new drug is proposed that might cure or control
a disease, it is first tested on a large random group of people, and their
reactions are then compared with those of another random group not given the
drug. All reactions in both groups are carefully recorded and compared, and
the drug is evaluated. All of this takes time and patience.



It’s the result of course, that makes the best news—
not the years of
quiet work that characterize the bulk of scientific inquiry. After an
experiment is concluded or an observation is made, the result continues to be
examined critically. When it is submitted for publication, it goes to a group
of the scientist’s colleagues, w
ho review the work. Einstein was right when
he said: “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right, a single
experiment can at any time prove me wrong.”

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Final Examination



In August 1996, NASA announced the discovery in Antarctica of a
meteorite(
流星
)from Mars that might contain evidence of ancient life on
another world. As President Clinton said that day, the possibility that life
existed on Mars billions of years ago was potentially one of the great
discoveries of our time.



After the excitement wore down and initial papers were published, other
researchers began looking at samples from the same meteorite. Some concluded
that the “evidence of life”was mostly contamination from Antarctic ice or
that there was nothing organic at all in the rock.



Was this a failure of science, as some news reports trumpeted?



No! It was a good example of the scientific method working the way it is
supposed to. Scientists spend years on research, announce their findings, and
these findings are examined by other scientists. That’s how
we learn. Like
climbing a mountain, we struggle up three feet and fall back two. It’s a
process filled with disappointments and reverses, but somehow we keep moving
ahead.



21. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to state that
____________.



A) most scientific discoveries are not reliable



B) mass media is misleading because it looks at the research results only



C) scientific research is a process filled with reverses and requires slow
and patient work



D) repeated experiments are necessary before medicine can be used in
patients



22. Publication of a scientific finding signifies __________.



A) a challenge to fellow scientists to prove it wrong



B) the end of a process



C) the beginning of a new scientific inquiry



D) the soundness of the result

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