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 social sciences are flourishing. As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields
The social sciences are flourishing. As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields
admin
2017-12-11
99
问题
The social sciences are flourishing. As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia. According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.
Yet this enormous resource is not contributing enough to today’ s global challenges including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.【C1】______. Humanity has the necessary agro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers. Here, too, the problems are social: the organization and distribution of food, wealth and prosperity.
【C2】______. This is a shame—the community should be grasping the opportunity to raise its influence in the real world. To paraphrase the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter: there is no radical innovation without creative destruction.
Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact. Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords "environmental change" or "climate change" have increased rapidly since 2004.【C3】______.
When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example. And whether the community’ s work contributes much to an overall accumulation of knowledge is doubtful.
The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding.【C4】______. This is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction. Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’ s economic climate.
The trick is to direct these funds better. The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targeted at social scientists. This year, it was proposed that the system be changed: Horizon 2020, a new program to be enacted in 2014, would not have such a category. This has resulted in protests from social scientists. But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite.【C5】______. That should create more collaborative endeavors and help to develop projects aimed directly at solving global problems.
[A]It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.
[B]However, the numbers are still small: in 2010, about 1, 600 of the 100, 000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these keywords.
[C]The idea is to force social scientists to integrate their work with other categories, including health and demographic change, food security, marine research and the bio-economy, clear, efficient energy; and inclusive, innovative and secure societies.
[D]The solution is to change the mindset of the academic community, and what it considers to be its main goal. Global challenges and social innovation ought to receive much more attention from scientists, especially the young ones.
[E]These issues all have root causes in human behavior; all require behavioral change and social innovations, as well as technological development. Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.
[F]Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems. And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.
[G]During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds—including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.
【C1】
选项
答案
E
解析
空格前提到了复数结构的global challenges,整句话的意思为“这个巨大的资源并没有为 应对今天的全球化挑战做出足够的贡献——诸如气候变化、社会安全、可持续发展和人体健 康”。该项首句these issues说明前文或者有issues这个单词出现,或者出现表示issue的复数同 义名词,或者出现若干个具体的issue内容,在这里these issues即指代空格前所提到的复数结构 global challenges,以及该项第二句的climate change举例说明即是空前所列出的问题之一,并且 该项提及解决气候变化的问题,很好地启示了下文。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/unBZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Consumerproductssuchasshampoosandsunscreens,evenonesboostedassafer,maycontainpotentiallyharmfulchemicalsnotlis
Oldpeoplearealwayssayingthattheyoungarenotwhattheywere.Thesame【C1】______ismadefromgenerationtogenerationand
Oldpeoplearealwayssayingthattheyoungarenotwhattheywere.Thesame【C1】______ismadefromgenerationtogenerationand
Iftheonlineserviceisfreethenyouaretheproduct,technicianssay.GoogleandFacebookmakea【C1】______collectingpersonal
Bettingagainstanindustrywithaddictsforcustomerscarriesobviousrisks.【C1】______theseareuncertaintimesforBigTobacco
Itistheurbandriver’smostagonizingeverydayexperience:thesearchforanemptyparkingplace.Circling,narrowlymissinga
Collegestudentsaremorestressedoutthaneverbefore—atleastaccordingtothelatestfindingsofalarge,nationalsurveyth
Fordecadesthemarketforexpensiveheadphoneswasmainlylimitedtohi-fifans.But【C1】______theboxystereosysteminthecor
IllegalCookingOilIsEverywhereWriteanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthedrawing.Inyouressay,youshould1)des
ALetterofRequestWritealetterofabout100wordsbasedonthefollowingsituation:Youarestrivingtofindajobi
随机试题
在城市自然资源条件下,制约工业项目的发展的是()。
现金和银行存款的清查均应采用实地盘点的方法进行。()
根据《证券经营机构证券自营业务管理办法》规定,证券公司从事证券自营业务,应当以公司名义建立证券自营账户,并报()备案。
损害是因受害人故意造成的,行为人不承担责任。()
(2017·山西)意志行动的中心环节是()(易混)
以下不是当前全球关注的最主要的社会问题是()。
①科学所研究的是那些被认为是独立于研究者个人而存在的关系。这也适用于把人本身作为研究对象的科学。科学陈述的对象还可以是我们自己创造出来的概念,像在数学中就是那样。我们不一定要假设这种概念是同外在世界里的任何客体相对应的。但是,一切科学陈述和科学定律都有一个
同住一个小区的三位同事早上7:30分同时出门上班,甲自驾车,乙乘坐公交车,丙骑自行车。如果他们的路程相同,甲8:00到达单位,乙8:30到达单位,丙8:15到达单位,则他们的平均速度比是()。
在系统开发方法论的实际发展过程中,共有两种开发方法被提倡和发展,它们是自底向上方法和
函数fun的功能是:根据所给的年、月、日,计算出该日是这一年的第几天,并作为函数值返回。其中函数isleap用来判别某一年是否为闰年。例如,若输入:200851,则程序输出:2008年5月1日是该年的第122天。请在程序的下划线处填入正确的内容,并
最新回复
(
0
)