【单选题】{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}}
A、book to be published inBritain this week, TheEnd of Science, argues persuasively that this is the case. Its author, John Horgan, is a senior writer for ScientificAmerican magazine, who has interviewed many of today’s leading scientists and science philosophers. The shock of realizing that science might be over came to him, he says, when he was talking to Oxford mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose.
TheEnd of Science provoked a wave of denunciation (谴责) in the United States last year. "The reaction has been one of complete shock and disbelief," Mr. Horgan says.
The real question is whether any remaining unsolved problems, of which there are plenty, lend themselves to universal solutions. If they do not, then the focus of scientific discovery is already narrowing. Since the triumphs of the 1960s—the genetic code, plate tectonics (快板构造税) , and the microwave background radiation that went a long way towards proving theBigBang—genuine scientific revolutions have been scarce. More scientists are now alive, spending more money on research, that ever. Yet most of the great discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were made before the appearance of state sponsorship, when the scientific enterprise was a fraction of its present size.
Were the scientists who made these discoveries brighter than today’s That seems unlikely.A、far more reasonable explanation is that fundamental science has already entered a period of diminished returns. "Look, don’t get me wrong," says Mr. Horgan. "There are lots of important things still to study, and applied science and engineering can go on for ever. I hope we get a cure for cancer, and for mental disease, though there are few real signs of progress."
B．The HarshChallenge Has toBe Met by Modem Scientists
C．The State Sponsorship and ScientificEnterpriseAreAll in Vain
D．TheChance for Great ScientificDiscoveriesBecomes Scarce
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[解析] 通读文章可以看出作者在探讨近年来存在的，伟大的科学发现越来越少的现象以及原因等。故答案为D。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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