8(C)
关键词“scientific truth”,定位原文
“We certainly need to get beyond the naive view that the truth will automatically reveal itself to any scientist who looks in the right direction”即与此相反的观点为
“It is rarely obvious and transparent (b: easily detected or seen through: OBVIOUS).”
9(A)
根据“Kepler’s ideas”定位原文
“And the philosophers of science mentioned above are quite right to argue that new scientific ideas often correct old ones by indicating errors and imprecision (as, say, Newton’s ideas did to Kepler’s).”前后对照关系表明,Kepler’s ideas是old ideas,被Newton’s correct.
“corrected by subsequent inquiries”
10(C)
关键词“third paragraph”,“primarily concerned”定位原文
“However, science’s accumulation of lasting truths about the world is not by any means (by any means: adv.无论如何) a straightforward matter…most often, in fact, a whole series of prior discoveries is needed to tease reality’s truths from experiment and observation”再结合第9题例证,表明a whole series of prior discoveries is needed,即
“qualifying a previously expressed point of view”
11(E)
关键词“any serious-minded and informed person”,“functions in the context”定位原文
“I do not believe any serious-minded and informed person can claim that these statements are not factual descriptions of the world or that they will inevitably be falsified.”作者是为了证明本段TS
“While this rejection of the traditional belief that scientific views are objective reflections of the world may be fashionable, it is deeply implausible.”而反驳any serious-minded and informed person
“to discredit someone who would argue that certain scientific assertions do not factually describe reality”
12(B)
“the relationship between the views of “certain philosophers of science” (lines l2-13) and those of the recent historians”定位原文
“(A recent generation of historians of science)These historians seem to find allies in certain philosophers of science who argue that scientific views are not imposed by reality but are free inventions of creative minds, and that scientific claims are never more than brave conjectures, always subject to inevitable future falsification.”
而
“A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorical power such scientists wield”
两者的共同点在于“far from reality”, 不同点在于”far from reality”的根源不一样,即
“These two views share some similarities”
13(D)
关键词“the opinions of the new historians of science”定位原文
“Indeed, much of the new work in the history of science has been extremely revealing about the institutional interactions and rhetorical devices that help determine whose results achieve prominence”这是new historians对science的总结
“Although they are gross overstatements, they lead to some valuable insights”
14(A)
“In concluding the passage”à” What the new historians ought to be showing us is how those doctrines that do in fact fit reality work their way through the complex social processes of scientific activity to eventually receive general scientific acceptance”这是作者的期望,也是对new historians工作的向导
“offers a prescription”
15(D)
定位原文
“But one can accept all this without accepting the thesis that natural reality never plays any part at all in determining what scientists believe.”需要确定作者对reality在科学研究中作用的看法,而这在第二段提到,即
““extremism” (line 20) and “implausible” (line 24)”