問題詳情
II. Cloze題組 11- 15 Research universities have been abuzz with what some are calling the “next big thing”:convergence, the integration of the life, engineering and physical sciences. This wholesale merging ofminds is being billed as critical to helping researchers answer the most profound questions: How doesthe brain work? What causes cancer? How can we make energy more sustainable? “The convergencerevolution is a 11 shift,” write the authors of a recent white paper from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology. “Convergence means a broad rethinking of how all scientific research can beconducted.” Researchers can be forgiven for thinking they have heard this all before. The concept of mergingtools and methods from separate disciplines is not new; the x-ray's arrival in 1895 brought physics tothe doctor's office. More recently, the Human Genome Project spawned 12 fields such asbioinformatics and systems biology. But Phillip A. Sharp, a biology professor at M.I.T. and co-authorof the white paper, argues that the true multidisciplinary nature of convergence marks a “thirdrevolution” in science that is following in the footsteps of the molecular biology revolution of the1950s and the genomics revolution that began in the late 1980s. If something revolutionary is again 13 , it has only recently begun reaching critical mass,with more universities opening facilities and revamping hiring practices to foster cross-disciplinaryresearch. Earlier this year New York University cut the ribbon on its Biomedical Chemistry Institute,with laboratories shared by chemists and biomedical researchers 14 on new antibiotics, malariadrugs and cancer diagnostics. M.I.T.'s new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Researchmixes biology and engineering labs and features common spaces designed to promote interaction.Columbia University's recently opened Northwest Corner Building brings together engineers,physicists, chemists and biologists in open-format labs and a common dining hall and library. Otheruniversities have started recruiting across disciplines. Michigan Technological University hasexperimented with hiring faculty by research theme—such as energy— 15 by department. Andlast October the University of Iowa announced 14 new tenure-track positions as part of amultidisciplinary hiring initiative centered on “the aging mind and brain.” So is convergence arevolution or simply a matter of scientific evolution? It may be hard to tell until it yields its own versionof the double helix or the human genome.
【題組】11.
(A) critical
(B) paradigm
(C) futural
(D) chronological
參考答案
答案：B
難度：困難0.272727
統計：A(4),B(3),C(4),D(0),E(0)