【正文】 es. \[D\] They have universal control of the waters. 14. What the author tries to suggest may best be interpreted as. \[A\] It39。s Al Rosenshine is blunter. He dismisses a lot of the work of reengineering consultants as mere rubbishthe worst sort of ambulancechasing. 15. According to the author, the American economic situation is. \[A\] not as good as it seems\[B\] at its turning point \[C\] much better than it seems\[D\] near to plete recovery 16. The official statistics on productivity growth. \[A\] exclude the usual rebound in a business cycle \[B\] fall short of businessmen39。s 17thcentury trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake39。 and The DemonHaunted 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. Antiscience clearly means different things to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned science39。 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 antiscience epithet is in danger of being meaningless. The term39。 can lump together too many, quite different things, notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and AntiScience. They have in mon only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened. 19. The word schism (Line 3, Paragraph 1) in the context probably means. \[A\] confrontation\[B\] dissatisfaction \[C\] separation\[D\] contempt 20. Paragraphs 2 and 3 are written to. \[A\] discuss the cause of the decline of science39。s sympathy with scientists \[C\] explain the way in which science develops \[D\] exemplify the division of science and the humanities 21. Which of the following is true according to the passage? \[A\] Environmentalists were blamed for antiscience in an essay. \[B\] Politicians are not subject to the labeling of antiscience. \[C\] The more enlightened tend to tag others as antiscience. \[D\] Tagging environmentalists as antiscience is justifiable. 22. The author39。s most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation39。s baby boom generation reached its childbearing years. Moreover, demographers see the continuing shift south and west joined by a related but newer phenomenon: More and more, Americans apparently are looking not just for places with more jobs but with fewer people, too. Some instances ■ Regionally, the Rocky Mountain states reported the most rapid growth percent since 1970 in a vast area with only 5 percent of the US population. ■ Among states, Nevada and Arizona grew fastest of all: and percent respectively. Except for Florida and Texas, the top 10 in rate of growth is posed of Western states with million peopleabout 9 per square mile. The flight from overcrowdedness affects the migration from snow belt to more bearable climates. Nowhere do 1980 census statistics dramatize more the American search for spacious living than in the Far West. There, California added million to its population in the 1970s, more than any other state. In that decade, however, large numbers also migrated from California, mostly to other parts of the West. Often they choseand still are choosingsomewhat colder climates such as Oregon, Idaho and Alaska in order to escape smog, crime and other plagues of urbanization in the Golden State. As a result, California39。 growth figure and considerably below that of other Western states. 23. Discerned from the perplexing picture of population growth the 1980 census provided, America in 1970s. \[A\] enjoyed the lowest growth of population in history \[B\] witnessed a southwestern shift of population \[C\] underwent an unparalleled period of population growth \[D\] brought to a standstill its pattern of migration since World War II 24. The census distinguished itself from previous studies on population movement in that . \[A\] it stresses the climatic influence on population distribution \[B\] it highlights the contribution of continuous waves of immigrants \[C\] it reveals the Americans39。s baby boom 25. We can see from the available statistics that. \[A\] California was once the most thinly populated area in the whole US \[B\] the top 10 states in growth rate of population were all located in the West \[C\] cities with better climates benefited unanimously from migration \[D\] Arizona ranked second of all states in its growth rate of population 26. The word demographers (Line 1, Paragraph 7) most probably means. \[A\] people in favor of the trend of democracy \[B\] advocates of migration between states \[C\] scientists engaged in the study of population \[D\] conservatives clinging to old patterns of life Passage 5 Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlike most of the world39。s surface。s interior. It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it. Hot spots, anchored in the deeper layers of the earth, provide the measuring instruments needed to resolve the question. From an analysis of the hotspot population it appears that the African plate is stationary and that