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1、2022年考博英语-西南大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 单选题Opinion poll surveys show that the public see scientists in a rather unflattering light.Commonly the scientist is also seen as being male. It is true that most scientists are male, but the picture of science as a male activity may be a major reason why fewer girl
2、s than boys opt for science, except when it comes to biology, which is seen as female.The image most people have of science and scientists comes from their own experience of school science, and from the mass media_ Science teachers themselves See it as a problem that so many school pupils find schoo
3、l science an unsatisfying experience, though over the last few years more and more pupils, including girls, have opted for science subjects.In spite of excellent documentaries, and some good popular science magazines, scientific modes in the media still usually alternate between miracle and scientif
4、ic threat. The popular stereotype of science is like the magic of fairy tales: it has potential for enormous good or awful harm. Popular fiction is full of “good” scientists saving the world, and mad scientists trying to destroy it.From all the many scientific stories which might be given media trea
5、tment, those which are chosen are usually those which can be framed in terms of the usual news angles: novelty, threat, conflict or the bizarre. The routine and often tedious work of the scientist slips from view, to be replaced: with a picture of scientists forever offending public moral sensibilit
6、ies (as in embryo research), threatening public health (as in weapons research), or fighting it out with each other (in giving evidence at public enquiries such as those held on the issues connected with nuclear power).The mass media also lends to over-personalize scientific work, depicting it as th
7、e productof individual genius, while neglecting the social organization which makes scientific work possible. A further effect of this is that science comes to be seen as a thing in itself: a kind of unpredictable force a tide of scientific progress.It is no such thing, of course. Science is what sc
8、ientists do; what they do is what a particular kind of society facilitates, and what is clone with their work depends very much on who has the power to change their discoveries into technology, and what their interests are.1.According to the passage, ordinary-people have a poor opinion of science an
9、d scientists partly because （ ）.2.Fewer girls than boys study science because（ ）.3.Media treatment of science tends to concentrate on（ ）.4.According to the author, over-personalization of scientific work will lead science（ ）.5.According to the author, what a scientist does（ ）.问题1选项A.of the misleadin
10、g of the mediaB.opinion polls are unflattering.C.scientists are shown negatively in the mediaD.science, is considered to be dangerous问题2选项A.they think that science is too difficultB.they are often unsuccessful in science at schoolC.science is seen as a mans jobD.science is considered to be tedious问题
11、3选项A.the routine everyday work of scientistsB.discoveries that the public will understandC.the more sensational aspects of scienceD.the satisfactions of scientific work问题4选项A.isolation from the rest of the worldB.improvements on school systemC.association with femalenessD.trouble ha recruiting young
12、 talent问题5选项A.should be attributed to his individual geniusB.depends on the coordination of the societyC.shows his independent powerD.is unpredictable【答案】第1题:A第2题:C第3题:C第4题:A第5题:B【解析】1.文章第三段提到人们对于科学的认知大多来源于他们在学校关于最科学的学习以及大众媒体。文章第五段和第六段讲述了大众媒体对科学工作的负面描述和夸大（The mass media also lends to over-personaliz
13、e scientific work），因而导致了人们对科学和科学家们有误解，选项A符合题意。2.文章第二段第二句It is true that most scientists are male, but the picture of science as a male activity may be a major reason why fewer girls than boys opt for science, except when it comes to biology, which is seen as female提到看为什么大部分科学家是男性，女性很少的原因，因为她们认为科学就是男
14、性的工作，因此选项C符合题意。3.文章第五段The routine and often tedious work of the scientist slips from view, to be replaced: with a picture of scientists forever offending public moral sensibilities, threatening public health, or fighting it out with each other提到媒体关注的重点不再是科学实验这些繁琐的工作，而是将关注点放在科学家们没有公共道德情感、危害公众健康或者相互争斗
15、等等，选项C符合题意。4.文章第六段第一句The mass media also lends to over-personalize scientific work, depicting it as the product of individual genius, while neglecting the social organization which makes scientific work possible提到大众媒体将科学工作过分私人化。作者认为如果脱离了社会组织，科学工作将无法进行。选项A符合题意。5.文章最后一段提到科学家们的工作是为了促进社会的进步what they do is what a particular kind of society facilitates，因此他们依靠的是整个社会的协作，选项B符合题意。2. 单选题We began with an experiment. The man asked me to make a drawing on a blank piece of paper. I made a sketch of a creature I had invented some time ago to amuse my children. When I had finished, he asked me to c
