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Science Fiction can provide students interested in the future with a basic introduction to the concept of thinking about possibl

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问题     Science Fiction can provide students interested in the future with a basic introduction to the concept of thinking about possible futures in a serious way, a sense of the emotional forces in their own culture that are affecting the shape the future may take, and a multitude of predictions regarding the results of present trends.
    Although SF seems to take as its future social settings nothing more ambiguous than the current status or its totally evil variant, SF is actually a more important vehicle for speculative visions about macroscopic social change. At this level, it is hard to deal with any precision as to when general value changes or evolving social institutions might appear, but it is most important to think about the kinds of societies that could result from the rise of new forms of interaction, even if one cannot predict exactly when they might occur.
    In performing this "what if..." function, SF can act as a social laboratory as authors ruminate upon the forms social relationships could take if key variables in their own societies were different, and upon what new belief systems or mythologies could arise in the future to provide the basic rationalizations for human activities. If it is true that most people find it difficult to conceive of the ways in which their society, or human nature itself, could undergo fundamental changes, then SF of this type may provoke one’s imagination --to consider the diversity of paths potentially open to society.
    Moreover, if SF is the laboratory of the imagination, its experiments are often of the kind that may significantly alter the subject matter even as they are being carried out. That is, SF has always had a certain cybernetic effect on society, as its visions emotionally engage the future--consciousness of the mass public regarding especially desirable and undesirable possibilities. The shape a society takes in the present is in part influenced by its image of the future; in this way particularly powerful SF images may become self-fulfilling or self-avoiding prophecies for society. For that matter, some individuals in recent years have even shaped their own life styles after appealing models provided by SF stories. The reincarnation and diffusion of SF futuristic images of alternative societies through the media of movies and television may have speeded up and augmented SF’s social feedback effects. Thus SF is not only change speculator but change agent, send an echo from the future that is becoming into the present that is sculpting it. This fact alone makes imperative in any education system the study of the kinds of works discussed in this section.
From Paragraph 2, we can infer that ______
选项 A、SF is able to provide fairly reliable prophecies of social relationships.
B、SF’s predictions about the evils in a future society have proved true.
C、SF can provoke imagination and could in itself undergo radical changes.
D、SF’s representations of present trends may not so accurate as anticipated.
答案D
解析 题干问：“从第2自然段我们得到的推论是什么?”仔细研读第2自然段不难发现，作者认为不论是推测还是假设，都不可能达到完全的精确性，因此选项D“科幻小说是对现在趋势的再现，不像我们所企盼的那么具有精确性”为正确选项。而选项A“关于社会关系，科幻小说能够提供相当可靠的预言”和选项B“科幻小说对于将来各种邪恶情景的预测已经被证明是正确的”都是原文编撰的答案。选项C“科幻小说能够激发想象并且本身经历了彻底的变化”，该选项前半句是正确的，后半句是错误的，文章中没有提及后半句的信息。
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