Governors, lawyers and business leaders have to deal with scientists, and every educated person finds his views influenced by science. Yet our science teaching to non-scientists, in school and college, has built up mistaken ideas, dislikes, and the common boast(夸夸其谈). “I never did understand science.” Even those students who arrive at college with plans to become scientists usually bring a mistaken picture of science; some have a collection of unorganized facts about science, and some regard the study of science as a game which has something to do with the right answer.
The first of these attitudes seems to come from a kind of course which provides various kinds of information, the second from a training course on how to pass examinations that do not ask about the student's understanding but simply require him to put the numbers in the right formulas(公式). Neither type of course (in school or college) seems to give students an understanding of science as we find it among scientists. Neither shows students how real scientists work and think, how the facts are gathered, how discoveries are made, and what they mean. Young people need good science teaching, not so much a GREat wealth of knowledge as a healthy understanding of the nature of science. They need an understanding of knowledge leading to a sympathy(同感) with science and a strong and deep knowledge of the way scientists work. Given this, it is easy to encourage later reading and learning.
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Choose the best answer:
1. One of the reasons that caused mistaken ideas of science is the result of __________.
A. a mistaken picture in students' minds
B. the unscientific way of teaching science
C. the fact that students fail to see the influence of science
D. the fact that students have a collection of unrelated facts about science
2. As we can learn from the passage, the subject of the passage is __________.
A. need for good science teaching
B. every person, including governors, lawyers and business leaders should study science
C. young people should form a correct attitude of science
D. students must know what science is and how scientists work and think
3. If students have a healthy understanding and knowledge of science, __________.
A. they will change their attitudes about science
B. they will be more sympathetic with science and understand the work done by scientists
C. they will certainly become scientists as they hope to
D. they will bring about good reading and learning
4. A good course of science is __________.
A. to teach students to do things according to formulas
B. to provide students with all kinds of information
C. to help students have a good understanding and form a correct attitude about science
D. to encourage students to have a good command of scientific knowledge
参考答案：1.B 2.A 3.B 4.C
