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V. Reading Comprehension: Choose the best answer to each question/statement belowaccording to what is stated and implied in each passage. Questions 41-42     Years ago, Prof. J. D. Bernal wrote a canonical essay on science and industry, which was laterincluded in a series of essays concerning the frustration of science. This edited volume of essays borewitness to the sense of social responsibility of individual scientific men at least, and to their concernswith tendencies or forces which are preventing science from bringing its full benefits to mankind.Somewhat earlier, in “Scientific Research and Social Needs,” Prof. Julian Huxley gave a popularpicture of the extent to which scientific advance is influencing every aspect of everyday life and abrief forecast of some of the further possibilities if we can lessen or close the wide gap betweenscientific knowledge and its application to the needs of humanity. In this vein, Lord Stamp in “TheScience of Social Adjustment” called for research on urgent problems arising from the impact ofscience on society. In this effort, scientific workers have become aware that, for the first time sincethe Renaissance, science itself is in danger, and that political forces are threatening not merely thedirection but even the existence of science.
41. We can infer from the passage that
(A)there is no gap between science inquiry and the needs of humanity.
(B)scientific breakthroughs are always in line with politics and industry.
(C)scientific discoveries have not increased mankind’s social responsibility.
(D)science’s ultimate potential has been inadvertently thwarted by politics.
(E) scientists feel indifferent towards their social responsibility.

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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