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1、Test Yourself 2 Passage OneIn1665,anapplefellfromatreeandlandednearyoungIsaacNewton.Untoldnumbersofpeoplehadseenapplesfallandhadn’tgiventhematterasecondthought.ButNewtonthoughtaboutitcarefullyanddevelopedacornerstoneofmodernscience—thetheoryofgravity.
2、 Theabilitytoaskdeepquestionsandlookforanswersliesattheheartofscience.SoitstandstoreasonthateducatorswouldwanttobottleNewton’sbrandofthinkingandserveittotheirstudents. Commonsensemightarguethatthebestmeanstothatendistocramfuturescientistsw
3、ithchemistry,physics,biology,andmathematics.Afterall,Newtonhadanenormousappetite(胃口；兴趣)forscience. ButNewtonownedmorebooksinthehumanities(文科)thanhedidinthesciences,andhisinterestincludedsubjectssuchanhistory,philosophy,andGreekmythology.
4、 Coulditbethatthinkingdeeplyaboutsubjectssuchashistory,philosophy,andreligionmakesoneabetterscientist?ManytopAmericanschoolsthinkso. Theliberalartseducationisadiversified(多样化的)toolbox.Ifyouhaveonlyonewayoflookingatthings,youwillgetstuckinthesam
5、eplaceeverybodyelsegotstuck.Ifyou’vegotdifferentexperiences,youmayfindotherwaysofsolvingtheproblem.” It’swellknownthatthemorewethink,thebetterourneural(神经的)connections.Butliberalartscollegesgoonestepfurther.Theyarguethatlearningtothinkinonefield
6、maysharpentheabilitytosolvecomplexproblemsinaseeminglyunrelatedarea.Itmaybeawhilebeforescientistsestablishthetruthorfalsityofthisidea.Inthemeantime,someofthebestmindsinsciencearebettingthatit’strue. “Learningaboutthegreatbooksandthehumanitiesca
7、nstimulatethesortofbrainwavesthatserveascientistprettywell,”saysNobelPrizewinnerTomCech“Themoretypesofthinkingyouhavetodo,themoreskillsyoucanbringtoascientificproblem."26.Welearnfromthefirstparagraphthat________.A. theabilitytothinkisoffirstimportancetos
8、cientificdiscoveryB. nobodynoticedapplesfallingfromtreestothegroundbeforeNewtonC.NewtondevelopedthetheoryofgravitybywatchingafallingappleD.modernscienceisrelatedtothefallingofanappletotheground27.Accordingtothepassage,tohe
