Science and Truth"FINAGLE" is not a word that most people associate with science. One reason is that the image of the scientist is of one who always collects data in an impartial (51) for truth. In any debate - over intelligence, schooling, energy-the (51) "science says" usually disarms opposition.But scientists have long acknowledged the existence of a "finagle factor"—a tendency by many scientists to give a helpful change to the data to (53) desired results. The latest of the finagle factor in action comes from Stephen Jay Gould, a Harvard biologist, (54) has examined the important 19th century work of Dr. Samuel George Morton. Morton was famous in his time (55) analysing the brain size of the skulls as a measure of intelligence. He concluded that whites had the (56) brains, that the brains of Indians and Blacks were smaller, and therefore, that whites constitute a superior race.Gould went back to Morton’s original data and concluded that the (57) were an example of the finagle at work. He found that Morton’s "discovery" was made by leaving out embarrassing data, using incorrect procedures, making simple arithmetical (58) (always in his favour) and changing his criteria-again, always in favour of his argument. Morton has been thoroughly discredited by now and scientists do not believe that brain size reflects (59) .But Gould went on to say Morton’s story is only an example of a common problem in (60) work. Some of the leading figures in science are believed to have (61) the finagle factor. Gould says that Isaac Newton fudged out to support at least three central statements that he could not prove. And so (62) Claudius Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer, whose master work, Almagest, summed up the case for a solar system that had the earth as its centre. Recent studies indicate that Ptolemy (63) faked some key data or resorted heavily to the finagle factor.All this is (64) because the finagle factor is still at work. For example, in the artificial sweetener controversy, for example, it is said that all the studies sponsored by the sugar industry find that the artificial sweetener is unsafe, while all the studies sponsored by the diet food industry find nothing (65) with it. 55()
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阅读下面短文,回答下列五道题。 自屈原开始把它(“木”)准确地用在一个秋风叶落的季节之中,此后的诗人们无论谢庄、杜甫、黄庭坚,都以此在秋天的情景中取得鲜明的形象。例如吴均的《答柳恽》说:“秋月照层岭,寒风扫高木。”这里用“高树”是不是可以呢当然也可以;曹植的《野田黄雀行》就说:“高树多悲风,海水扬其波。”这也是千古名句,可是这里的“高树多悲风”却并没有落叶的形象,而“寒风扫高木”则显然是落叶的景况了。前者正要借满树叶子的吹动,表达出像海潮一般深厚的不平,这里叶子越多,感情才越饱满;而后者却是一个叶子越来越少的局面,所谓“扫高木”者岂不正是“落木千山”的空阔吗然则“高树”则饱满,“高木”则空阔;这就是“木”与“树”相同而又不同的地方。“木”在这里要比“树”更显得单纯,所谓“枯桑知天风”这样的树,似乎才更近于“木”;它仿佛本身就含有一个落叶的因素。 要说明“木”何以会有这个特征,就不能不触及诗歌语言中暗示性的问题,这暗示性仿佛是概念的影子,常常躲在概念的背后,我们不留心就不会察觉它的存在。而“木”作为“树”的概念的同时,却正是具有着一般“木头”、“木料”、“木板”等的影子,这潜在的形象常常影响着我们会更多地想起了树干,而很少会想到了叶子,因为叶子原不是属于木质的,“叶”因此常被排斥到“木”的疏朗的形象以外去,这排斥也就是为什么会暗示着落叶的缘故。而“树”呢它是具有繁茂的枝叶的,它与“叶”都带有密密层层浓荫的联想。 “木”不但让我们容易想起了树干,而且还会带来了“木”所暗示的颜色性。树的颜色,即就树干而论,一般乃是褐绿色,这与叶也还是比较相近的;至于“木”呢,那就说不定,它可能是透着黄色,而且在触觉上它可能是干燥的而不是湿润的;我们所习见的门闩、棍子、桅杆等,就都是这个样子;这里带着“木”字的更为普遍的性格。尽管在这里“木”是作为“树”这样一个特殊概念而出现的,而“木”的更为普遍的潜在的暗示,却依然左右着这个形象,于是“木叶”就自然而然有了落叶的微黄与干燥之感,它带来了整个疏朗的清秋的气息。它是属于风的而不是属于雨的,属于爽朗的晴空而不属于沉沉的阴天;这是一个典型的清秋的性格。至于“落木”呢,则比“木叶”还更显得空阔,它连“叶”这一字所保留下的一点绵密之意也洗净了。然则“木叶”与“落叶”又还有着一定的距离,它乃是“木”与“叶”的统一,疏朗与绵密的交织,一个迢远而情深的美丽的形象。 关于诗歌语言的暗示性,下列分析错误的一项是______。
A. 它主要指词语丰富的形象色彩、感情色彩和联想意义,体现了诗歌言有尽而意无穷的含蓄性特征
B. 它隐藏在概念的后面,只要透过概念的字面义,细心品味,就能察觉它的存在
C. 诗歌语言的暗示性能引发鉴赏者的联想和想象,从而受到感染,得到启发
D. 当诗中的“木”是指叶的时候,读者想象的叶一定是近乎木质的枯黄的叶
Flying the Hypert Skies A little airplane has given new meaning to the term "going hyper. " The Hyper-X recently broke the record for air-breathing jet planes when it traveled at a hypersonic speed of seven times the speed of sound. That’s about 5,000 miles per hour. At this speed, you’d get around the world -- flying along the equator (赤道) -- in less than 5 hours. The Hyper-X is an unmanned,experimental aircraft just 12 feet long. It achieves hypersonic (超音速的) speed using a special sort of engine known as a scramjet. It may sound like something from a comic book,but engineers have been experimenting with scramjets since the 1960s. For an engine to burn fuel and produce energy, it needs oxygen. A jet engine, like those on passenger airplanes, gets oxygen from the air. A rocket engine typically goes faster but has to carry its own supply of oxygen. A scramjet (紧急刹车) engine goes as fast as a rocket, but it doesn’t have to carry its own oxygen supply. A scramjet’s special design allows it to obtain oxygen from the air that flows through the engine. And it does so without letting the fast-moving air put out the combustion (燃烧) flames. However, a scramjet engine works properly only at speeds greater than five times the speed of sound. A booster rocket carried the Hyper-X to an altitude of about 100,000 feet for its test flight. The aircraft’s record-beating flight lasted just 11 seconds. Although the little plane’s self-powered flight lasted only 11 seconds, that brief journey on March 27 makes a major milestone on the way to a new breed of very fast airplanes, comments Werner J. A. Dahm of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In the future, engineers predict, airplanes equipped with scramjet engines could transport cargo quickly and cheaply to the brink of space. Such hypersonic jets could potentially carry passengers anywhere in the world in just a few hours. Out of the three experimental Hyper-X aircrafts built for NASA, only one is now left. The agency has plans for another 11-second hypersonic flight, this time at 10 times the speed of the sound. What kind of an engine did the Hyper-X use
A jet engine that gets oxygen from the air.
B. A scramjet engine that doesn’t carry its own oxygen supply.
C. A rocket engine that carries its own supply of oxygen.
D. A jet engine that uses no oxygen.
酸性最弱的是
A. 8-OH黄酮
B. 7-OH黄酮
C. 5-OH黄酮
D. 6-OH黄酮
E. 3-OH黄酮