大学英语综合教程第一册Unit3自测题.pdfVIP

Unit 3 Text B How to Make Sense Out of Science I. Useful expressions (20 points) Directions: Please find out the English equivalence in Text B and write down the correct answers in the blank. 1.科学发现 ____________________ 2.外层空间_____________________ 3.与癌症抗争的人们______________________ 4.专业杂志_____________________ 5.渐进的过程___________________ 6.科学探索_______________________ 7.有待得出的结论 ______________________ 8.古老的生命_____________________________ 9.生命的证据________________________ 10.失望与挫折____________________ II. Reading comprehension (30 points) Section A (10 points) Directions: Please select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Science is not a set of (11) _______ results but a way of understanding the world around us. Its real work is slow. The scientific method, as many of us learned in school, is a (12)_______ process that begins with a (13) _______ or a problem or question to be answered. It includes a list of materials, a procedure to (14)_______ ,a set of observations to make and, finally, conclusions to reach. In medicine, when a new drug is (15) _______ that might cure or control a disease, it is first tested on a large random group of people, and their reactions are then compared with those of another random group not given the drug. All reactions in both groups are carefully recorded and compared, and the drug is (16)_______. All of this takes time--and patience. It’s the result of course, that makes the best news -- not the years of quiet work that (17)_______ the bulk of scientific inquiry. After an experiment is concluded or an observation is made, the result continues to be examined (18)_______. When it is submitted for publication, it goes to a group of the sci