27. What does the author probably mean by %untaught mind in the first paragraph?
[A] A person ignorant of the hard work involved in experimentation.
[B] A citizen of a society that restricts personal creativity. [C] A person who has had no education.
[D] An individual who often comes up with new ideas by accident. 28. According to the author, what distinguishes innovators from non-innovators?
[A] The variety of ideas they have. [B] The intelligence they possess.
they way [D] [C] The way they deal with problems. The present their findings.
29. The author quotes Rudolph Flesch in Paragraph 3 because__. [A] Rudolph Flesch is the best-known expert in the study of human creativity
[B] the quotation strengthens the assertion that creative individuals look for new ways of doing things .
[C] the reader is familiar with Rudolph Flesch' s point of view [D] the quotation adds a new idea to the information previously
presented
30. The phrase “march to a different drummer” (the last line of
the passage) suggests that highly creative individuals are__. [A] diligent in pursuing their goals
[B] reluctant to follow common ways of doing things [C] devoted to the progress of science [D] concerned about the advance of society Part Ⅲ English-Chinese Translation
According to the new school of scientists, technology is an overlooked force in expanding the horizons of scientific knowledge.
(31) Science moves forward, they say, not so much through the insights
of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved
techniques and tools. (32) “In short”, a leader of the new school
contends, “the scientific revolution, as we call it, was largely the
improvement and invention and use of a series of instruments that
expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions.”
(33)Over the years, tools and technology themselves as a source
and by historians largely been ignored of fundamental innovation have
argues hails technology The modern school that philosophers of science.
inventors Einstein, and Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, masters that such as
benefit great derived importance to, and such as Edison attached great
from, craft information and technological devices of different kinds
that were usable in scientific experiments.
The centerpiece of the argument of a technology-yes, genius-no the of at the start was an analysis of Galileo's role advocate Ptolemy, from was derived The wisdom of the day scientific revolution.
sky of the century, whose elaborate system the an astronomer of second
Galileo's (34) heavenly of all motions. put Earth at the center
greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the
newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets
hero the real the than around Earth. But sun revolve around the rather
of the story, according to the new school of scientists, was the long
evolution in the improvement of machinery for making eye-glasses.
genius technology the vs. necessarily Federal policy is involved in
dispute. (35)Whether the Government should increase the financing of
) often 反之pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa ( depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving force.
Writing (15 points) ⅣPart DIRECTIONS:
A. Title: ON MAKING FRIENDS B. TIME LIMIT: 40 minutes
C. Word limit: 120 - 150 words (not including the given opening sentence)
D. Your composition should be based on the OUTLINE below and should
start with the given opening sentence: “As a human being, one can
hardly do without a friend.”
E. Your composition must be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET. OUTLINE:
l. The need for friends 2. True friendship
3. My principle in making friends