大学英语四级模拟试卷及参考答案（三套）试卷二.docxVIP

2021年12月大学英语四级模拟试卷及参考答案（三套）  英语四级模拟试卷及参考答案2 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.? Passage 1? Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.? It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out,and if it is really good science it is impossible to predict.If the things to be found are actually new,they are by definition unknown in advance. You cannot make choices in this matter.You either have science or you don’t,and if you have it you are obliged to accept the surprising and disturbing pieces of information,along with the neat and promptly useful bits.The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is?that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.Indeed, I regard this as the majordiscovery of the past hundred years of biology.It is,in its way,an illuminating piece of news.It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment (启蒙运动)to be told by any of us how little we know and how confusing seems the way ahead .It is this sudden confrontation(对抗)with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of 20th century science to the human intellect.In earlier times,we either pretended to understand how things worked or ignored the problem,or simply made up storied to fill the gaps.Now that we have begun exploring in earnest,we are getting glimpses of how huge the questions are ,and how far from being answered.Because of this,we are depressed.It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant,the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance,the worst spots and here and there the not so bad spots,but no true light at the end of the tunnel n