[单项选择]The science of medicine, ______ progress has been very rapid lately, is perhaps the most important of all sciences.
A. to which
B. with which
C. in which
D. among which

[单项选择]What progress has been made in their negotiations


A. Israeli troops can stay on in the West Bank.
B. Israel has released thousands of prisoners.
C. PLO and lsrael have reached a final agreement.

[单项选择]______ progress has been made in cutting down the mortality rate in China.


A. Rapid
B. Slow
C. Little
D. Negative

[单项选择]Progress so far has been very good. ______ , we are sure that the project will he completed on time.
A. However
B. Otherwise
C. Therefore
D. Besides

[单项选择]A major role of computer science has been to alleviate problems, mainly by making computer systems cheaper, faster, more reliable, and easier to use.
A. exclude
B. lessen
C. clarify
D. evade

[单项选择]The ________progress of science and technology in the 20th century has brought enormous benefits to humankind.
A. magnificent
B. remarkable
C. grand
D. brilliant

[单项选择]Unlike science, progress in technology must be measured in terms of the human factor. Technology must be our slave and ______.
A. not the reverse
B. not the version
C. not the same
D. not the prejudice

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Text 4
Science has long since had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo’s 17th-century trifil’ for his rebelling belief the Catholic Church or poet William Black’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 Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl 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
A. confrontation
B. dissatisfaction
C. separation
D. contempt

[单项选择]It is said that science has become too complex to acknowledge the existence of uni versal truths.
A. address
B. declare
C. affirm
D. Perceive

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Text 4 Science has long since had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo’s 17th-century trifil’ for his rebelling belief the Catholic Church or poet William Black’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 Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl 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
A. discuss the cause of the decline of sciences power
B. show the authors sympathy with scientists
C. explain the way in which science develop
D. exemplify the division of science and the humanities