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【单选题】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 such as" The Flight from Science and Reason," held in New YorkCity in 1995,and "Science in theAge of (Mis) information, "which assembled last June nearBuffalo.　　Antiscience 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 antiscience 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 pretechnological Utopi
A、But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are antiscience, 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 PaulEhrtich of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial　growth.　　Indeed, some observers fear that the antiscience epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless. "The term ’’ antiscience’’ 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 they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightene
D、"Which of the following is true according to the passage ____________.
A、Environmentalists were blamed for antiscience in an essay.
B．Politicians are not subject to the labeling of antiseienee.
C．The "more enlightened" tend to tag others as antiseience.

D、Tagging environmentalists as "antiseience" is justifiable.

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
US News &World Report刊登的一篇文章将环境学家说成是“反科学”(anti-science)。这与A项是吻合的。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>