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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 is in sympathy with environmentalists because________.
选项 A、they scorn science and long for return to a pre-technological society
B、they respond to critics of an essay in a reason-able way
C、they are not the true enemies of science
D、they ignore the evidence against global warming
答案C
解析 本题的关键词是environmentalists，问题是作者支持环保主义者的原因是什么。本题可以定位到第六、七段。在原文第六段第二句，作者指出环保主义者关心的是不加控制的工业增长(uncontrolled industrial growth)，因此他们不属于反科学，而且第七段第二句还进一步指出科学真正的敌人是那些怀疑地球环境恶化证据(question the evidence)的人，因此选项C与原文是相同含义，为正确选项。选项A的they在原文第六段说的是Some people，但这里被偷换为环保主义者，属于偷换主语。选项B并不是作者支持的原因，只是环保主义者对批评做出的正常反应而已，且文章没有支持ill a reasonable way的信息，所以选项B答非所问。选项D是拼凑细节，根据第七段的内容可知，科学真正的敌人是那些对全球变暖、臭氧层消耗和工业增长带来的其他后果的证据提出质疑的人，而并非选项D所说的环保主义者忽略了反对全球变暖的证据。第六段：一些人渴望回到前技术社会，但作者认为环保主义者不是反科学。第七段：科学真正的敌人是怀疑全球环境恶化证据的人。
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