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Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo’s 17th-century trial for his rebell

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问题     Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo’s 17th-century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanities has, if anything, deepened in this century.
    Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics— but no longer. As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked "anti-science" in several books, notably Higher Superstition, by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.
    Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from Science and Reason," held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of (Mis) information," which assembled last June near Buffalo.
    Anti-science clearly means different things to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned science’s objectivity. Sagan is more concerned with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.
    A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
    Some people scorn science and long for return to a pre-technological Utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US News & World Report last May seemed to suggest.
    The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics. The true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
    Indeed, some observers fear that the anti-science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless. "The term ’anti-science’ can lump together too many, quite different things," notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti-Science. "They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened."

The author’s attitude toward the issue of "science vs. anti-science" is________.
选项 A、subjective
B、impartial
C、biased
D、puzzling
答案B
解析 本题是主旨题，需综合各段主题进行判断：第一段：科学与文化的其他领域的关系一直不好，科学家被批评。第二段：科学家出书反击“反科学”势力。第三段：科学捍卫者在两个会议上也表达了他们的担忧。第四段：反科学对不同的人有不同的含义。第五段：一些权威机构和共和党人士也被贴上反科学的标签。第八段：反科学涵盖了太多东西会失去意义。综合以上各段分析，前五段作者均未表明是否支持科学还是文化领域，直至第六段才支持环保人士不属于“反科学”，并摆事实讲道理进行说明，因此作者对于科学与“反科学”的态度是比较客观的，因此选项B为正确选项。其他选项不符文意，而且从常识上看也是错误的，因为能发表在报刊或杂志上的文章一般不会过于主观、带有偏见或令人困惑。
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