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1、职称英语理工类完形填空模拟题 xx年职称英语理工类完形填空模拟题 Scien _ and Truth “FINAGLE” (欺骗) is not a word that most people associate with scien _. One reason is that the i _ge of the scientist is of one who always (1) data in an impartial (不偏不倚) search for truth. In any debate (2) in _igen _, schooling, energythe phrase “sci
2、en _ says” usually disarms opposition. But scientists have long acknowledged the existen _ of a “finagle factor”a tendency by _ny scientists to give a helpful change to the data to (3) desired results. The latest of the finagle factor in action es from Stephen Jay Gould, a Harvard biologist, who has
3、 (4) the important 19th _ntury work of Dr. Samuel George Morton. Morton was famous in his time for _ysing the brain (5) of the skulls as a measure of in _igen _. He concluded that whites had the largest brains, that the brains of Indians and blacks were s _ller,and (6), that whites constitute a supe
4、rior ra _. Gould went back to Mortons original data and concluded that the (7) were an example of the finagle at work. He found that Mortons “discovery” was _de by leaving out embarrassing data, (8) incorrect pro _dures, and changing his criteria again, always in favour of his argument. Morton has b
5、een thoroughly discredited by now and scientists do not believe that brain size reflects (9)。 But Gould went on to say Mortons story is only an example of a mon problem in (10) work. Some of the leading figures in scien _ are (11) to have used the finagle factor. Gould says that Isaac Newton fudged
6、out (捏造) to support at least three _ntral statements that he could not prove. And so(12) Laudius Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer, whose _ster work, Al _gest, summed up the case for a solar system that had the earth as its _ntre. Re _nt (13) indicate that Ptolemy either faked some key data or resorted
7、heavily to the finagle factor. All this is important because the finagle factor is still at work. For example, in the artificial sweetener controversy, for example, it is (14) that all the stu _s sponsored by the sugar industry find that the artificial sweetener is unsafe, (15) all the stu _s sponso
8、red by the _t food industry find nothing wrong with it. 1 A collects B invents C misuses D enables 2 A of B over C in D with 3 A convey B destroy C modify D acquire 4 A created B written C examined D produ _d 5 A size B shape C tissue D _ll 6 A however B then C though D therefore 7 A results B exper
9、iments C ideas D suggestions 8 A planning B _ C using D searching 9 A creativity B reliability C in _igen _ D originality 10 A unusual B mental C scientific D _nual 11 A taught B believed C tried D allowed 12 A was B had C could D did 13 A stu _s B events C developments D decisions 14 A feared B said C suggested D expected 15 A if B while C because D although 参考答案: 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. A 8. C 9. C 10. C 模板,内容仅供参考