2014考研英语：边阅读边记忆_跨考网

　　单词记忆方法一直备受考生关注，各种记忆技巧令人眼花缭乱，小编认为，无论那种方法能记住单词就是好的方法。下面，小编给大家推荐一种边阅读边记忆的方法，考生可以借鉴。

　　Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo’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.

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　　科学与文化的其他方面的关系一直都很不稳定。想想看，17世纪伽利略由于他叛逆性的信仰而遭受到天主教会的审判，诗人威廉•布莱克对艾萨克·牛顿的机械论世界观进行尖锐地批判。本世纪，科学与人文之间的分裂加剧了。

　　直到前不久，科学界有着如此之强大的权威以致可以对其批评者不予理会——但是现在不是这样的情况了。由于科研经费减少，所以科学家出了几本书对 “反科学”势力进行批评，其中值得注意的有弗吉尼亚大学生物学家保罗·R·格罗斯和拉特格斯大学的数学家诺曼·莱维特合著的《高级迷信》及康奈尔大学的卡尔·萨根著的《鬼怪世界》。

　　科学的捍卫者们也在一些会议上表示了他们的担忧。比如，1995年在纽约市召开的“远离科学和理性”会议，以及去年6月在布法罗市召开的“信息(迷信)时代的科学”会议。

　　词汇

　　schism n. 分裂, 分立, 分裂教会罪

　　例句：When one intends to integrate a schism, so it will be. 当你意愿整合一个分裂时，它就将如你所愿。

　　deepen vi. 深化vt. 使加深, 使强烈

　　例句：We'll have to deepen the well if we want more water. 想获得更多的水，我们必须把井加深。

　　词组：deepen a trench使壕沟加深

　　critic n. 批评家, 评论家, 吹毛求疵者

　　例句：Critics really slapped the play around. 剧评家们把那个剧本简直批评得体无完肤。

　　词组：film critic电影评论sports critic体育评论家armchair critic 闭门造车的批评家, 不做调查研究的批评家; 不负责任的批评家

　　antic n. 滑稽动a. 古怪的

　　例句：Everyone laughed at his foolish antics. 大家都笑他那种愚蠢的滑稽动作。

　　notably ad. 显著地, 著名地, 尤其, 特别

　　例句：Many members were absent, notably the vice-chairman. 许多成员都缺席，特别是副主席也未到场。

　　mathematician n. 数学家

　　例句：He is an English mathematician. 他是个英国数学家。

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