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"I see this as a vanguard in a revolution in education," said Prof. Lukasz Turski, a physicist with the Polish Academy of Scienc

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问题     "I see this as a vanguard in a revolution in education," said Prof. Lukasz Turski, a physicist with the Polish Academy of Sciences who lobbied the government to build the Copernicus Science Center, which opened in November.
    The idea is to overcome a view of the hard sciences as inferior to the arts and humanities, a lingering perception that is today hampering Poland’s efforts to advance. It is a concrete reminder of just how much history shapes and defines the present.
    Many nations have struggled to excite their children about math and science. But in Poland, it is different. In a nation that struggled to remain a nation even while it did not exist, geographically wiped off the map for more than a century, the arts proved to be a thread that bound generations of Poles together, preserving an identity and a rich language. The only form to create national identity was literature. So the humanities were important to Poland’s survival, while math and the sciences languished.     So lots of people just skipped math—a legacy that Poland’s fledgling high-tech sector is struggling with today. Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, a Polish daily newspaper, recently reported that job opportunities in these areas outnumbered applicants by 10 to 1.
    Economists say that Poland lags far behind other nations of comparable resources in patent applications, and that in 2012 Poland will probably lose out on European Union financing for research and development.
    "I am not qualified to be considered intelligentsia in this country," Professor Turski said, shouting with the enthusiasm of a man on a mission. "It is more important to sit and discuss Plato than to know how the chip in the computer works."
    The decision to make math studies optional was finally reversed this past May, Professor Turski said, part of a long, slow process of trying to persuade Poles to forge values relevant to the modern world, and to get past values that evolved in very different times.
    But that struggle is not just relevant to math, because it is essentially about reconstructing an identity free from suffering, free from occupation, free from the moral certainty that resistance is always the moral choice.
    It is not even clear, Professor Turski said, that there is a general understanding and agreement on the need to improve education in science and math, if for no other reason than to help propel Poland’s already successful post-cold-war economy.
    "The only way for this country to move forward is for it to educate its own people, and our politicians don’t understand this," Professor Turski said. "You cannot move a country without great ideas."
The opening of the Copernicus Science Center aims to______.
选项 A、memorize the great Polish scientist
B、lobby the government for financing
C、raise Poles’ attention on natural science
D、help revitalize Poland’s economy
答案C
解析 属事实细节题。通过题目中首字母大写内容定位至文章第一段。选项A犯了无中生有的错误，尽管这个科学中心以哥白尼命名，但不意味其建立就是为了纪念哥白尼，故错误。选项B犯了偷梁换柱的错误，原文中提到Lukasz Turski说服政府成立了这个中心，而并非成立中心来游说政府提供资金，故错误。其实成立科学中心的目的可在第二段中找到，第二段开头即说“theidea is to…”，即是为了纠正自然科学逊于人文科学的观念，也就是想唤起波兰人对自然科学的兴趣，故选项C正确。选项D犯了移花接木的错误，将文章倒数第二段最后提到的economy置于此处，故错误。
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