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1、2022年考博英语-中国地质大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题1 Etienne Klein, a celebrated French physicist and popularizer of science, seems set to lose his post as president of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (IHEST) in Paris after allegations that he plagiarized the work of more than a doze
2、n scientists, philosophers and writers in various books and articles. A source at Frances Ministry of Science and Education yesterday confirmed that a decree ending Kleins tenure has been signed by the current minister and is now awaiting the signature of French President Francois Hollande.2 But Kle
3、in says he refuses to leave. In an open letter published last week, he wrote that an investigative panel that looked into the matter has found no evidence of misconduct and that he sees no reason to step down. “My scientific integrity is absolute,” Klein wrote to science journalists in an email. The
4、 report has not been made public.3 Klein leads a small group studying science itself at the Alternative Energies and Atomic fame Energy Commission(CEA) near Paris, but seldom publishes in the scientific literature; his fame stems from books and articles in popular magazines, mostly about physics. He
5、 also hosts a weekly radio show about science. President Hollande appointed Klein president of IHESTwhich seeks to build trust in science and to reflect on its social economic and political aspectsin September 2016.4 In November, the weekly magazine L Express reported that Klein had copied passages
6、from French and foreign authors in a recent biography of Albert Einstein and in several other publications. Klein defended some of the instances but admitted he had made “mistakes” in others; a few days later, L Express published seven more examples of alleged plagiarism, to which Klein has not resp
7、onded.5 CEA has not investigated the matter. A spokesperson says Klein wrote the disputed publications on his own time, not as a CEA researcher. “This is a private matter,” the spokesperson says. This is why government officials asked an independent four-member panel to investigate the charges. The
8、commission finished its work in late January, but when it presented its report to the government, nothing happened for almost 2 months. Then Klein published his open letter on 29 March.6 In the letter, he quoted a few paragraphs from the report in which the commission said it had not found ethical b
9、reaches in Kleins work for CEA and that it was neither “competent” nor tasked to judge whether Klein committed plagiarism in the legal sense. Nonetheless, the commission recommended that he step down from IHEST, Klein wrote, “so as not to cause difficulties for the institute and its important missio
10、ns.” Klein says he has no intention of doing so. “I dont want to be judged by the press, but according to the criteria of French law,” he wrote in an email.7 The leader of the four-member panel says he cant discuss the report; he says he hopes it will be made public by the authorities. But he confir
11、ms that the panel did not consider the issue of whether Kleins reuse of other writers words broke any laws. “Klein came to the commission with his lawyer,” he says, “were not judges, were not the police, were just four academics.”8 Klein says that his book about Einstein contains more than 120 attri
12、buted quotes as well, which “proves that I have no problem with quoting someone. What I am being blamed for is due to carelessness or negligence, especially in my file management, not to a conscious desire to plagiarize.”9 In a story published last week, L* Express speculates that Kleins open letter
13、 may have been a last-ditch effort to avert his dismissal or delay a decision until after the upcoming elections, in the hope that a new president might save him. But Klein says he is not aware of any decision to fire him. He says he went public because he had expected the commission to publicly rea
14、ffirm his scientific integrity. “That was a key issue for me, Klein says. “When nothing happened in that regard, I decided to speak out myself.”1.Based on this very recent article, we may assume that Etienne Klein is （ ）.2.The information in this article seems to indicate that Klein （ ）.3.At the tim
15、e this article was written, Klein appeared to be on the verge of getting fired from at least one of his positions. His reaction has been to （ ）.4.In his work at IHEST Klein（ ） .问题1选项A.well known primarily to his fellow physicistsB.best known to French television viewers who watch his showC.well know
16、n to most French people curious about scienceD.well known primarily to high officials of the current French government问题2选项A.occasionally neglected to state that bits of text in his published work come from other writers and researchersB.falsified scientific data to increase his chances of getting his articles accepted for publicationC.presented the research findings of other scientists as his own work
