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青岛四六级模拟试题 Part Two Proof-reading Exercises Passage 1 We live in a society which there is a lot of talk [1] ___________ about science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with schooling, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people with comparable education in Western Europe [2] ___________ 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 [3] ____________ if you ask them to explain about the principles of [4] ____________ physics that have gone into creating the computer, you don’t have the faintest idea. [5] ____________ The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human creative power. It [6] _____________ also takes rise to a blurring of the distinction [7] ____________ between science and technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the [8] ____________ production of new technology 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 very 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 is not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to [10] ____________ forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous. Passage 2 Thomas Mahhus published his “Essay on the Principle of Population” almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters have being warning [1]_________ that worldwide famine was just around the next corner. The fast-growing population’s demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their