首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
The National Geographic Channel is often praised for its meticulous science documentaries, but a show that aired last month focu
The National Geographic Channel is often praised for its meticulous science documentaries, but a show that aired last month focu
admin
2015-03-25
37
问题
The National Geographic Channel is often praised for its meticulous science documentaries, but a show that aired last month focusing on the blockbuster video game Spore is coming in for harsh criticism. Surprisingly, the toughest critics are some of the scientists who appear in the film itself. They say that they were not informed before taking part that it would focus on a commercial product. " I literally never heard about Spore until I saw myself on television in this info-mercial about the game," says Cliff Tabin, a geneticist at Harvard University. "It’s an outrage. "
The documentary, titled How to build a Better Being, which aired on 9 September, puts Spore and its creator, Will Wright, front and center. Over the course of the 1-hour show, Wright visits several U. S. -based academic scientists to discuss their research. Between these scientific interludes, the documentary returns to Wright and Spore. "Journey into the billion-year history of the human body, led by computer game visionary Will Wright as he explores the breakthrough science that’s revealing the secret genetic machinery that shapes all life in the game Spore," reads a description of the film on the National Geographic Channel’s Web site.
Tabin, along with Neil Shubin, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and Michael Levine, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, sent Science identical e-mails from the film’s producers inviting them to take part. The e-mail describes the documentary as an investigation of "recent discoveries in evolutionary science" with no mention of Spore or Wright. "I thought I was being interviewed for a documentary about evolutionary biology," says Shubin, who appears to be playing the game in the film. "They didn’t mention Spore until we were in the middle of the interview. ...I sat there with Will Wright as he fiddled with it," he says. "I don’t endorse video games, particularly one that claims to be about evolution. "
Ellen Stanley, National Geographic’s communications vice president, says there was no intent to mislead the participants. "Our producers were transparent with all of the scientists," she says. The production of such a documentary takes "several months" she adds, and "the idea for the film evolves during that process. "
Spore is described in the film as "one of the most ambitious games ever, simulating the process of evolution," and a DVD of the film is included in the $80 "Galactic Edition" of the game. "There’s no question that the impression one gets from watching the film is that Spore is scientifically based and that scientists endorse this as not only a valid representation of how life on earth arose but moreover a really cool way that kids can learn about it," says Tabin. But "the science is told in the most superficial way and not really explained or clarified," he says. "And then it becomes more about this computer game designer than it is about the science. "
"We had a great time partnering with the folks over at National Geographic," wrote a spokesperson for Electronic Arts in an e-mail to Science. "However, we don’t typically discuss business terms of our partnerships. "
We may infer from the second paragraph that
选项
A、Will Wright is the producer of the film.
B、the description of the film on the Website is an advertisement of Spore.
C、Will Wright visited the scientists to learn something about biology.
D、the documentary is a film of 150 minutes.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。根据题干提示定位至第二段。该段介绍了纪录片的情况以及国家地理频道网站对纪录片的描述。由该段首句的puts Spore and its creator,Will Wright可知,威尔.怀特是游戏Spore的制作者,而不是纪录片的制作者,故[A]错误;由over the course of the 1一hourshow可知,纪录片持续了一小时,而不是150分钟,故[D]错误;由上下文可知,这个纪录片对游戏Spore进行了宣传,威尔·怀特并不是为了学习生物学知识而拜访科学家的,故[C]错误。纪录片宣传Spore,主要是为其做广告,因此[B]正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/KQ74777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
ShoppinghabitsintheUnitedStateshavechangedgreatlyinthelastquarterofthe20thcentury.【C1】______inthe1900smostAm
ShoppinghabitsintheUnitedStateshavechangedgreatlyinthelastquarterofthe20thcentury.【C1】______inthe1900smostAm
ShoppinghabitsintheUnitedStateshavechangedgreatlyinthelastquarterofthe20thcentury.【C1】______inthe1900smostAm
Thefollowingparagraphsaregiveninawrongorder.ForQuestions41-45,youarerequiredtoreorganizetheseparagraphsintoa
(46)Arecentphenomenoninpresent-dayscienceandtechnologyistheincreasingtrendtoward"directed"or"programmed"research
MosttownsuptoElizabethantimesweresmallerthanamodernvillage,andeachofthemwasbuilta-rounditsweeklymarketwher
CanHumanKidneyBeTraded?Iftheywerejustanotherproduct,themarketwouldworkitsusualmagic:supplywouldrespond
Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledgedthateducationisthekeytoeconomicsuccess.Everyoneknowsthatthejobsofthefuture
Studythefollowingtablecarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1)describethetable,2)givepossiblereasonsforthe
[A]Globalclimatechange—averagetemperatureshaverisenbyroughly0.6degreeCelsiussincethebeginningofthe20thcentury—
随机试题
已知函数f(x)=-1+在[-1,1]上满足罗尔定理的条件,那么由定理所确定的ξ=________.
A.刨木B.拧龙头C.捡拾珠子D.缝纫E.锤钉腕伸屈作业训练为
检查肝囊肿最简便而实用的方法是
A.骨质疏松B.骨质软化C.骨质破坏D.骨质增生硬化E.骨膜增生
研究者或其指定的代表必须向受试者说明的临床试验的详细情况包括
某村水塘上游有一家集体造纸厂。该厂已经经营近10年。污水一直排入水塘上游的河流。赵立国与余庆华合伙承包村里的水塘养虾。2016年5月,赵立国、余庆华二人向水塘投放虾苗2万尾。投放后赵、余二人精心管理,日夜看护。10天后,二人发现塘内有少量的死虾出现,当即捞
小王总是怀疑自己家的门没有上锁,因此常常要反复检查,它的这种行为属于()。
抗日战争时期,中共在反对国民党顽固派的斗争中,争取中间派和实行“三三制”政权的理论根据是
下面关于嵌入式系统的互连通信接口的叙述中,错误的是()。
A、Readtheoperationalmanual.B、Trythebuttonsonebyone.C、Makethemachinerunslowly.D、Askherinstructorforadvice.A本题
最新回复
(
0
)