2002年6月研究生英语学位课统考真题(9)

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71. Many people think government and business are “enemies” because ____

A the struggle between the two parties has always existed.

B they based their belief on the experience of the industrial countries.

C they believe that government can do better than business in economic activities.

D the struggle between the two parties is so fierce that neither will survive in the end.

72. The third paragraph mainly discusses___________

A how government and business depend on each other.

B why social order is important to business activities.

C Why it is necessary for business to rely on government.

D how business can develop and maintain order.

73. What does the passage say about economic activities organized by government?

A They mostly aim at helping people to survive.

B They can be conducted as well as those by business.

C They are the ones that business can’t do well.

D They are comparatively modern phenomena.

74. We can conclude from the passage that ____

A it is difficult for government and business to have good relations.

B it is difficult to study the relations between government and business.

C government should dominate economic activities.

D government and business should not oppose each other .

Passage Six

Standing up for what you believe in can be tough. Sometimes it’s got to be done, but the price can be high.

Biochemist Jeffrey Wigand found this out the hard way when he took on his former employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson, over its claim that cigarettes were not addictive. So too did climate modeler Ben Santer when he put his name to a UN report which argued that it is people who are warming the planet. Both men found themselves under sustained attacks, Wigand from Brown & Williamson, Santer from the combined might of the oil and car industries.

The two men got into their dreadful predicaments by totally different routes. But they had one thing in common---they fought powerful vested interests （既得利益者）with scientific data that those interests wished would go away.

Commercial companies are not, of course, the only vested interests in town. Governments have a habit of backing the idea of whoever pays the most tax. Academia also has its version: scientific theories often come with fragile egos and reputations still attached, and supporters of those theories can be overly resistant to new ideas.

For example, Alfred Wegener’s idea that the continents drift across the surface of the planet was laughed at when he proposed it in 1915. this idea was only accepted finally in the 1960s, when plate tectonics came of age. More recently, in 1982, Stanley Prusiner was labeled crazy for his controversial suggestion that infectious diseases such as BSE（疯牛病）were caused by a protein that self-replicated. A decade later, the notion had gained ground. Finally , in 1997, he received a Nobel Prize for his idea.

Western science has always thrived on individualism---- one person’s ambition to topple a theory. So independence of thought is crucial