考研英语阅读理解命题思路透析和真题揭秘(10)

1996年Passage 5

　　Rumor has it that more than 20 books on creationism/evolution are in the publisher's pipelines. A few have already appeared. The goal of all will be to try to explain to a confused and often unenlightened citizenry that there are not two equally valid scientific theories for the origin and evolution of universe and life. Cosmology , geology , and biology have provided a consistent , unified, and constantly improving account of what happened. "Scientific" creationism, which is being pushed by some for "equal time" in the classrooms whenever the scientific accounts of evolution are evil, is based on religion, not science. Virtually all scientists and the majority of nonfunda mentalist religious leaders have come to regard "scientific" creationism as bad science and bad religion.

　　The first four chapters of Kitcher's book give a very brief introduction to evolution. At appropriate places, he introduces the criticisms of the creationists and provides answers. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programmes and tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise. When their basic motivation is religious, one might have expected more Christian behavior.

　　Kitcher is a philosopher, and this may account, in part, for the clarity and effectiveness of
his arguments. The nonspecialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and
argument that support evolutionary theory. The final chapter on the creationists will be extremely clear to all. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-and all would be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.

70. This passage appears to be a digest of__
[A]a book review               
[B]a scientific paper
[C]a magazine feature        
[D] a newspaper editorial

[答案] A

[解题思路]

本题考察文章的来源，实际上也就是对中心思想的考查。综合全文，尤其是每段的第一句话、以及文章对Kitcher这本书的大量评论，可见文章是一篇书评，A为正确选项。

[题目译文]

这篇文章是一片                  的摘要。
[A] 书评
[B] 科学论文
[C] 杂志上的特别文章
[D] 报纸社论