LSAT备考指导：LSAT阅读笔记分享（6）.

11. according to the author， the royal society of london(可用来定位) insisted that scientists abandon the

(a) belief that the primary purpose of scientific discovery was to reveal the divine truth that could be found in nature

(b) view that scientific knowledge results largely from the insights of a few brilliant individuals rather than from the cooperative efforts of many workers

(c) seventeenth-century belief that servants should be denied the right to vote because they were dependent on wages paid to them by their employers

(d) traditional disdain for manual labor that was maintained by most members of the english upper class during the seventeenth-century

(e) idea that the search for scientific truth was a sign of piety

12. the author implies that which one of the following beliefs was held in both the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries?

(a) individual insights rather than cooperative endeavors produce most scientific discoveries.

(b) how science is practiced is significantly influenced by the political beliefs and assumption of scientists.

(c) scientific research undertaken for pay cannot be considered objective.

(d) scientific discovery can reveal divine truth in nature.

(e) scientific discovery often relies on the unacknowledged contributions of laboratory technicians.

13. which one of the following best describes the organization of the last paragraph?

(a) several alternative answers are presented to a question posed in the previous paragraph， and the last is adopted as the most plausible.

(b) a question regarding the cause of the phenomenon described in the previous paragraph is posed， two possible explanations are rejected， and evidence is provided in support of a third.

(c) a question regarding the phenomenon described in the previous paragraph is posed， and several incompatible views are presented.

(d) a question regarding the cause of the phenomenon described in the previous paragraph is posed， and several contributing factors are then discussed.

(e) several answers to a question are evaluated in light of recent discoveries cited earlier in the passage.

14. the author’s discussion of the political significance of the “wage relationship”(line 48) serves to

横读法：先读每个选项第一行，可排除几个，再度第二行，继续排除

(a) place the failure of seventeenth-century scientists to acknowledge the contributions of their technicians in the large context of relations between workers and their employers in seventeenth-century england.

(b) provide evidence in support of the author’s more general thesis regarding the relationship of scientific discovery to the economic conditions of societies in which it takes place.

(c) provide evidence in support of the author’s explanation of why scientists in seventeenth-century england were reluctant to rely on their technicians for the performance of anything but the most menial tasks.

(d) illustrate political and economic changes in the society of seventeenth-century england that had a profound impact on how scientific research was conduced.

(e) undermine the view that scientific discovery results from individual enterprise rather than from the collective endeavor of many workers.(跨区)

15. it can be inferred from the passage that “the clamor of seventeenth-century scientific rhetoric”(lines 39-40) refers to

(a) the claim that scientific discovery results largely from the insights of brilliant individuals working alone

(b) ridicule of scientists who were members of the english upper class and who were thought to demean themselves by engaging in the manual labor required by their experiments.

(c) criticism of scientists who publicly acknowledged the contributions of their technicians.

(d) assertions by members of the royal society of london that scientists themselves should be responsible for obtaining and recording experimental results.

(e) the claim by boyle and his colleagues that the primary reason for scientific research is to discover evidence of divine truth in the natural world.