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READING PASSAGE 3 　　You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. The Birth of Scientific English 科技英语的诞生 World science is dominateddominated [d?mineitid] adj. 占主导地位的；强势的；占统治地位的；[数] 受控的 v. 控制，支配；处于支配地位（dominate的过去式） dominate dominant domain field area today by a small number of languages, including Japanese, German and French, but it is English which is probably the most popular global language of science. This is not just because of 后跟短语the importance of English-speaking countries such as the USA in scientific research; the scientists of many non-English-speaking countries findfind [fa?nd]n. 发现vt. 发现 that they need to write their research papers论文 in English to reach不定式 a wide international audience. GivenGiven her high achievement today, it may seem surprising that she was forced to quit university 3 years ago. Given its good air quality, it may seem surprising that London was called “smog city” 200 years ago. the prominence of scientific English today, it may seem surprising that no one really knew how to write science in English before the 17th century. Before that, Latin was regarded as the lingua franca 1 for European intellectuals. 　　虽然当今世界科学为包括日语、德语和法语在内的少数几门语言所统治，但是英语可能才是科学界最普及的世界语言。这不仅仅是由于美国这样的英语国家在科学研究中所起的重要作用，而且还是因为许多非英语国家的科学家发现为了拥有广大的国际读者群，他们需要用英语写研究论文。今天，科技英语的地位已经显得非常重要。因此，你可能很难想到在17世纪之前竟没有人很清楚在科学写作中如何使用英语， (事实上)在17世纪之前，被人们视为欧洲知识分子通用语言的是拉丁文。 The European RenaissanceRenaissance [rineis?ns; ren?s?ns; r?nes??s] n. 文艺复兴（欧洲14至16世纪） (c. 14th-16th century) is sometimes called the ‘revivalrevival [r?va?v(?)l] n. 复兴；复活； of learning’, a time of一个…的时代 renewed更新的 interest in the ‘lost knowledge’ of classical times. At the same time, however, scholars also began to test and extendextend [?kstend; ek-]vt. 延伸；扩大； expand extent emerge emergent ；emergence [?m??d?(?)ns]n. 出现；merge [m??d?] vt. 合并 stimulate [st?mj?le?t]vt. 刺激；鼓舞 simulate [s?mj?le?t]adj. 模仿的；假装的vt. 模仿；假装；冒充 survival survive revive revival t