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2014年理工类职称英语级考试全真模拟题（） 2014年职称英语考试时间为2014年3月29日，考生们在备考的过程中切记要结合模拟题来练习，使自己的复习更加有效。 第2部分：阅读判断 下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。 回答16-22题 Scotland: A Land of Wisdom In the 1740s, the famous French philosopher Voltaire said We look to Scotland for all ourideas of civilization. Thats not a bad advertisement for any country when it comes toattracting people to search for a first-class education. According to the American author Arthur Herman, the Scots invented the modern worlditself. He argues that Scottish thinkers .and intellectuals worked out many of the most importantideas on which modern life depend -- everything from the scientific method to marketeconomics. Their ideas did not just spread among intellectuals, but to those people in business,government and the sciences who actually shaped the Western world. It all started during the period that historians call the Scottish Enlightenment (启蒙运动),which is usually seen as taking place between the years 1740 and 1800, Before that, philosophywas mainly concerned with religion. For the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the properstudy of humanity was mankind itself. Their reasoning was practical. For the philosopher David Hume, humanity was the rightsubject for philosophy because we can examine human behavior and so find real evidence of howpeople think and feel. And from that we can make judgments about the societies we live in andmake concrete suggestions about how they can be improved, for universal benefit. Hume s enquiry into the nature of knowledge laid the foundations for the scientific method ——the pursuit of truth through experiment. His friend and fellow resident of Edinburgh, AdamSmith, famously applied the study of mankind to the ways in which mankind does business.Trade, he argued, was a form of information. In pursuing our own interests through trading inmarkets, we all come to benefit each other. Smiths idea has dominated modern views of