[单项选择]The scientist Galileo claimed that the earth ______around the sun.
A. moves
B. moved
C. is moving
D. was moving

[单项选择]The scientist Galileo claimed that the earth ______ around the sun.
A. moves
B. moved
C. is moving
D. was moving

[单项选择]By using the example of Galileo, the author intends to reveal that ______.


A. objectivity is essential to scientific research
B. hypothesis is based on careful observation
C. creativeness plays an important part in scientific research
D. observation is the only factor determining scientific research

[单项选择]Passage Four Two equally brilliant scientists apply for a prestigious research fellowship awarded by a top scientific organization.One is white,the other black.Does the color of their skin matter Most scientists will already be screaming a resounding “no”. Those who progress in science do so because of their work, not their pigmentation. Science is meritocratic and objective. It must therefore be rigorously color-blind and shun both racial discrimination and affirmative action. Well,let’s think about this.If science really is so meritocratic,where are all the black Nobel prizewinners and fellows of the Royal SocietyThe black chairs of government scientific panelsThe black Richard Dawkinses and Susan GreenfieldsWhen Newsweek magazine recently surveyed Europe’s largest 100 copanies,it was shocked to unrearth only six board members of non-European racial origin. One shudders to thinks what a similar survey of upper echelons of European science would reveal. Even th
A. it is color-blind
B. it is racially discriminative
C. it awards wrong research workers
D. it is practiced by the white exclusively

[单项选择]A scientist usually directs his attention towards problems which he notices have no satisfactory explanation, and his curiosity makes him look for______ relationship even if the data available seem to be unconnected.


A. underlining
B. underneath
C. undergoing
D. underlying

[单项选择]A scientist interested in general knowledge about oxygen would probably call his approach ______.


A. applied science
B. chemical science
C. pure science
D. environmental science

[单项选择]The great American scientist Edison had a remarkable （） for inventing new things.
A. requirement
B. aptitude
C. obligation
D. vulnerability

[单项选择]People think that the pure scientist usually disregards the application of pure science to practical affairs, ________ his attention to explanation of how and why events occur.


A. refining
B. defining
C. confining
D. declining

[单项选择]The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ______.


A. makes them come to terms with their fears
B. develops their power of memory
C. convinces them there is nothing to be afraid of
D. encourages them not tn have ridiculous beliefs

[单项选择]The article does not mention whether the scientists' experiments with dogs have ______.
A. benefited animals other than dogs
B. served man
C. helped other dogs
D. contributed to medical knowledge

[单项选择]Galileo lived in the City of Pisa, （） there is a leaning tower about 180 feet （）.
A. in which; height
B. where; in height
C. which; high
D. where; height

[单项选择]Galileo lived in the City of Pisa,（　）there is a leaning tower about 180 feet （　）.
A. in which; height
B. where; in height
C. which; high
D. where; height

[单项选择]Indeed, almost every scientist now finds it impossible to read all the works relevant to his own subject, ______ extensively outside of it;


A. much more to read
B. much less to read
C. much less reading
D. still more reading

[单项选择]Why did one scientist expose birds to artificial daylight
A. To test the relationship between daylight and a disease of the glands common to birds.
B. To test the relationship between daylight and migration.
C. To test the relationship between migration and temperature.
D. To test the relationship between daylight and changes in the season.

[单项选择]A scientist being interested in adding to our general knowledge about oxygen would probably call his approach ______.


A. applied science
B. environmental science
C. pure science
D. agricultural science

[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that scientists now generally agree that the ______.


A. enormous wingspan of the pterosaurs enabled them to fly great distances
B. structure of the skeleton of the pterosaurs suggests a close evolutionary relationship to bats
C. fossil remains of the pterosaurs reveal how they solved the problem of powered flight
D. pterosaurs were reptiles

[单项选择]A scientist does not accept statements which are not based on the most complete evidence available. Instead, he always checks, studies and makes experiments carefully and objectively to ______ them.


A. testify
B. verify
C. affirm
D. assert