- ISBN:9787030096791
- 装帧:暂无
- 册数:暂无
- 重量:暂无
- 开本:16开
- 页数:227
- 出版时间:2001-08-01
- 条形码:9787030096791 ; 978-7-03-009679-1
内容简介
《博士研究生英语精读》属于教育部立项的“普通高等教育‘九五’国家*重点教材”,同时还被列为“中国科学院研究生教学丛书”。 《博士研究生英语精读》由中国科学院研究生院外语教学部的资深教授根据多年的教学经验编写而成,是几代教师辛勤努力的结晶。《博士研究生英语精读》所选文章的内容具有一定的思想和理论深度,突出了科学与社会这一主题,旨在激发学生对一些深层次问题的思考,从而全面提髙英语的语言和文化修养。
目录
Lesson 1 THE PARADOX OF KNOWLEDGE 1
Lesson 2 MODULAR MAN 17
Lesson 3 THE WEST UNIQUE, NOT UNIVERSAL 32
Lesson 4 SCIENTIFIC FACTS: COMPATIBLE WITH CHRISTIAN FAITH? 48
Lesson 5 SCIENCE, LIES AND THE ULTIMATE TRUTH 66
Lesson 6 HOW CAN I TELL IF I AM CUT OUT TO BE A RESEARCH WORKER? 79
Lesson 7 DRINKING HEMLOCK AND OTHER NUTRITIONAL MATTERS 97
Lesson 8 THE VIRTUES OF AMBITION 111
Lesson 9 THE LONG HABIT 127
Lesson 10 THE TWO CULTURES 144
Lesson 11 LIFE IN THE TUBE 163
Lesson 12 THE ENEMIES YOU DESERVE 182
GLOSSARY INDEX 201
节选
Lesson 1 THE PARADOX OF KNOWLEDGE Lee Loevinger PRE-READING QUESTIONS 1.In what way does humanity obtain knowledge? 2.What is the general process of scientific research to acquire knowledge? 3.Is the accumulation of knowledge reducing ignorance about ourselves,the world and the universe? 4.Is human cognitive capacity finite or infinite? Is it possible for mankind to discover a final “theory of everything”? Reader’s Notes The greatest achievement of humankind in its long evolution from ancient hominoid1 ancestors to its present status is the acquisition and accumulation of a vast body of knowledge about itself,the world, and the universe. The products of this knowledge are all those things that,in the aggregate, we call “civilization,” including 5 language, science,literature, art, all the physical mechanisms, instruments, and structures we use, and the physical infrastructures on which society relies. Most of us assume that in modem society knowledge of all kinds is continually increasing and the aggregation of new information into the corpus of our social or 10 collective knowledge is steadily reducing the area of ignorance about ourselves, the world, and the universe. But continuing reminders of the numerous areas of our present ignorance invite a critical analysis of this assumption. In the popular view, intellectual evolution is similar to,15 although much more rapid than,somatic2 evolution. Biological evolution is often described by the statement that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny4”一meaning that the individual embryo,in its development from a fertilized ovum5 into a human ba*y, passes through successive stages in which it resembles ancestra
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