問題詳情
IV. Reading Comprehension: Read the passages below and answer the questions that follow. 30%Passage 1 The public awareness of scientific fraud has increased significantly since the late 1980s when a controversy madefront-page news, in which a paper investigated for fraud has as co-author a Nobel laureate. During the 1990s scientificfraud was disclosed on numerous occasions. In fact, it was recently suggested that fraud now is “endemic” in manyscientific disciplines and in most countries. However, the clandestine nature and consequential lack of reliableinformation make it difficult to study scientific fraud. The features and frequency of scientific fraud, therefore, aregenerally unknown, and its impact on medical research is unclear. Biostatisticians routinely work closely withphysicians and scientists in many branches of medical research and have unique insight into the data. In addition, theyhave the methodological competence to detect fraud and can be expected to have a special professional interest in the validity of results. Biostatisticians therefore can provide unique and reliable information on the characteristics of fraudin medical research. The objective of this study was to assess the characteristics of fraud in medical research bysurveying members of the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB).
【題組】26. What does clandestine in Sentence 4 mean?
(A) neat
(B) secret
(C) professional
(D) methodical
參考答案
答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)