【正文】 we waved. We walked up the road to the beach, cutting through rutted lawns, the wheelchair bumping in the spring mud. Seana didn’t say much, but she seemed translucent in the sun, beaming, lit from within. I imagined it as her farewell tour of the world. I can only fathom the poignant wealth of feelings that were stimulated. For me, it evoked the sense of being a tourist, where everything seems special, a little strange, and very impermanent. I had experienced this same lakefront that way three years before. Then, I had just recovered from my own near death in the form of a myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest and was filled with joy and gratitude that I was still here. The world looked new. I had been Seana’s age. See taught me that awareness of death and appreciation of life go together: to imagine that you are seeing things for the last time has the same intensity as seeing them for the first. 70. Upon finishing rounds, the author . A. joined Seana for an outing B. went to the inpatient hospice unit C. managed to get a wheelchair for Seana D. found the perfect weather for a stroll with Seana can infer that the smell of smoke made the author feel that_______. A. it was a wrong idea to smoke outside of the hospital B. the sidewalk was a wrong place for smoking C. it had been the right plan to go out D. Seana was at a wrong place the hospital,Seana enjoyed everying including________. A. the fast food at McDonald’s B. the smell of smoke C. the generation gap D. all of the above author would say that Seana being wheeled in the sun_______. A. was fascinated by the team’s motley sight B. imagined her farewell tour of the world C. was emotionally aroused from within D. was fond of appreciating nature the outing,the author perceived Seana’s appreciation of life ______. A. in her hope of recovery B. in her awareness of death C. in seeing things for the first time D. in being a tourist at the lakefront Passage Four Two equally brilliant scientists apply for a prestigious research fellowship awarded by a top scientific is white,the other the color of their skin matter? Most scientists will already be screaming a resounding “no”. Those who progress in science do so because of their work, not their pigmentation. Science is meritocratic and objective. It must therefore be rigorously colorblind and shun both racial discrimination and affirmative action. Well,let’s think about science really is so meritocratic,where are all the black Nobel prizewinners and fellows of the Royal Society?The black chairs of government scientific panels?The black Richard Dawkinses and Susan Greenfields?When Newsweek magazine recently surveyed Europe’s largest 100 copanies,it was shocked to unrearth only six board members of nonEuropean racial origin. One shudders to thinks what a similar survey of upper echelons of European science would reveal. Even the usually stickinthemud British government now acknowledges there is a problem. Last month it promised new funding for projects designed to bat institutional racism in science education in schools. As measures go it is little and late, but wele nontheless. Despite starting school as the top achievers, balck British children have long underperformed in science. And there are positive changes afoot higher up the scientific career ladder too. At present, few scientific organizations, funding bodies or labs inEurope bother even to track the racial background of those they hire or fund. As a result the full scale of the underrepresentation problem is hidden. Not for much longer. Britain’s newly amended Race Relationa Act requires all government bodies, including funding councils, to track the effects of their activities on different ethnic groups and ensure that benefit equally. And next year a European union directive will push all EU employers this way too. But ethnic monitoring alone will not creat the back role models European Science so badly needs. Something else is needed. Funding agencies and influential organizations like the Royal Society must bite the bullet of affirmative action. That means ringfencing fellowship and grants for applicants from particular racial background. And it mesns seeking out those who have beoken through the barriers of race and giving htem preference over their equally wellqualified white peers for positions of influence and places in the spotlight. Tokenism and fine sentiments will no longer do. With other professions having already leapt ahead in this area, the enduring whiteness of science is more than an embarrassment: it is a barrier to its vey credibility. If a large segment of Euope’s schoolchildren never see a scientist who looks like them, they will continue to think science is not for them. And it scientist don’t reflect the multiracial societies they live in, they’ll find it hard to win the public trust they crave. Does color matter? You bet it does. 76. Science is not so meritocratic because . A. it is colorblind B. it is racially discriminative C. it awards wrong research workers D. it is practiced by the white exclusively 77. The embarrassing problem address in the passage . A. was proved by Newsweek magazine’s survey B. shocked government scientific panels C. was revealed by the Royal Society D. all of the above 78. One of the positive changes afoot is . A. funding research instittution or labs B. setting up a scientific career ladder C. hiding the racial discrimination D. belitting racial backgrounds 79. To bite the bullet of affirmative action is . A. to set up black role models in Europe B. to keep up ethnic issues under surveillance C. to restrict fellowship and grants to the balck D. to balance the distribution of fellowship and grants between the white the black 80. The author argues that color matters because it is . A. the nature of science B. credibility in science C. an embarr