专四专八考试

【单选题】Have we ever had judicious criteria on who are heroes and who are fools in science Have we ever had people believe in those seemingly self-evident judgments In the (31) model of scientific " progress ", we begin in superstitious ignorance and move toward final truth by the (32) accumulation of facts. In this complacent perspective, the history of science contains (33) than anecdotal interest—for it can only chronicle past errors and (34) the bricklayers for discerning (35) of final truth. It is as transparent as an old-fashioned drama: truth ( as we perceive it today) is the only arbiter and the world of (36) scientists is divided into good guys who are right and bad guys who are wrong.
Historians of science have utterly (37) this model during the past decade. Science is not a heartless pursuit of (38) information.
It is a creative human (39) , and its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. (40) in theory are not simply the results of new discoveries (41) the work of creative imagination (42) by contemporary social and political (43)
We should not judge the past (44) anachronistic spectacles of our own convictions—designating as heroes the scientists (45) we judge to be right (46) that had nothing to do with their own (47) .We are (48) foolish if we callAnaximander (sixth century
B、
C、) an evolutionist because, in advocating a (49) role for water among the four elements, he held that life first (50) the sea; yet most textbooks so credit him.
A．successive

B、continuous

C、sequential
D．seriate

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
形容词辨析题。句意为：按照传统的关于科学“进步”的观点来看，我们始于迷信引起的无知，通过……积累，迈向最终的真理。根据上下文逻辑可判断，空格处的单词与accumulation搭配，组成的含义与前面的progress相呼应，是这种progress的具体化。successive意为“接连的，相继的”，与accumulation搭配意为“不断的积累”，故[A]为答案。continuous强调一个连续的状态，不能体现积累这一动作；sequential和seriate都强调“比前面的事物出现晚的，后来的”，与原文意思不符。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>