We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _____1_____

that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including

college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _____2_____

with comparable education in Western Europe.

There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers—how to build

them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _____3_____

them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _____4_____

computer, you don’t have faintest idea. _____5_____

The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6_____

creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _____7_____

technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of _____8_____

new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of

knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are

really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a

faculty for the others. _____9_____

Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,

it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the consequences of _____10_____

new technology, which can be enormous.

參考答案及解析:

1.在which前加in，或將which改為where

在這里which引導限制性從句，修飾先行詞the society。in which 在從句中作狀語，當然也可以用關系副詞where引導定語從句，并在從句中作狀語，例如：

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.

2.將as 改為than

3.將So改為But或者However或者Nevertheless。

因為這里上下文是轉折關系。

4.將about去掉

因為explain是及物動詞。

5.將you改為they

6.將like改為as

因為such as 是固定搭配。

7.將takes改為gives

give rise to表示“引起，導致”之意。

8.將differ改為 distinguish

牽著表示“有區別”。后者表示“區分，找出……的差別。

9.將others改為other

這樣the other就和上文的one構成固定搭配，表示在兩個中“一個……;另外一個……”

10.將harmful改為harmless，只有這樣才可以表達上下文的對比關系。

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