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Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo’s 17th century trial for his rebelling belief before theCatholicChurch or poet WilliamBlake’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 TheDemon-Haunted World, byCarl Sagan ofCornell University.
Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings sucas "The Flight from Science and Reason", held in New YorkCity in 1995, and "Science in theAge of Misinformation", which assembled last June nearBuffalo.
Anti-science clearly means different things to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned science’s objectivity. Sagan is more concerned with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.
A、survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
Few would dispute that the term applies to the unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pre-technological utopiA、But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US News & World Report last May seemed to suggest.
The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics. The true enemies of science, argues PaulEhrlich of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the zone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
Indeed, some observers fear that be anti-science epithet is in danger of becoming meaning less. "The term ’anti-science’ can lump together too many, quite different things," notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science andAnti-science. "They have in common only one thing that the tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlighteneD、"

The word "schism" (Line 3, Paragraph 1) in the context probably means ______.A．confrontation
B．dissatisfaction
C．separation
D．contempt

网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
该题问：单词schism(第一段第二行)在文中意味着什么 本文的第一段第一句science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture 意思是：“长久以来，科学同文化的其他领域在关系上不尽协调”。B、D两项显然不合此意，可排除；A项confrontation意指“国家的对抗”，与文意不符；只有C项separation(分歧)符合上下文。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>