考研英语模拟试题.doc

Section Ⅰ Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Scientists and philosophers of science tend to speak as if “scientific language” were intrinsically precise, as if those who use it must understand one another's meaning, 1 they disagree. But, 2 , scientific language is not as different from 3 language as monly believed; it, too, is 4 to imprecision and ambiguity and hence to 5 understanding. Moreover, new theories (or arguments) are rarely, 6 , constructed by way of clear-cut steps of induction, deduction, and 7 (or falsification)。 Neither are they defended, rejected, or accepted in 8 straight forward a manner. 9 , bine the rules of scientific 10 with a generous mixture of intuition, aesthetics, and philosophical 11 . The importance of what are sometimes called ponents of thought in the discovery of a new principle or laws is generally 12 . We 13 recall Einstein's description: “To these elementary laws there leads no logical path, 14 intuition, supported by being sympathetically in 15 with experience.” But the role of these ponents in persuasion and acceptance (in making an argument 16 is less frequently discussed, partly because they are less 17 . The ways in which the credibility or effectiveness of a 18 depends on a realm mon experiences, on extensive practice municating those experiences in mon language, are hard to see precisely because such 19 are taken for granted. Only when we step out of such a “consensual domain”—when we can stand out on the periphery of a 20 with mon language.
1[A] even if [B] unless [C] though [D] if
2[A] in question [B] in relief [C] in fact [D] in prospect
3[A] standard [B] popular [C] vulgar [D] ordinary
4[A] susceptible [B] subject [C] immune [D] related
5[A] imperfect [B] perfect [C] impersonal [D] personal
6[A] if so[B] if not all[C] if ever[D] if any
7[A] verge[B] verification[C] justice[D] c