)[] after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were (48)[] to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers.Concerns were raised (49)[] witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to (50)[] guilty verdicts.
31、
[A]as to
[B]for instance
[C]in particular
[D]such as
32、
[A]tightening
[B]intensifying
[C]focusing
[D]fastening
33、
[A]sketch
[B]rough
[C]preliminary
[D]draft
34、
[A]illogical
[B]illegal
[C]improbable
[D]improper
35
[A]publicity
[B]penalty
[C]popularity
[D]peculiarity
36、
[A]since
[B]if
[C]before
[D]as
37、
[A]sided
[B]shared
[C]complied
[D]agreed
38、
[A]present
[B]offer
[C]manifest
[D]indicate
39、
[A]Release
[B]Publication
[C]Printing
[D]Exposure
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension Directions:
Each of the passages below is followed by some questions.For each question there are four answers marked [A],[B],[C]and [D].Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions.Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil.(40 points)
Passage1
Specialisation can be seen as a response to the problem of an increasing accumulation of scientific knowledge. By splitting up the subject matter into smaller units, one man could continue to handle the information and use it as the basis for further research. But specialisation was only one of a series of related developments in science affecting the process of communication. Another was the growing professionalisation of scientific activity.
No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs in science: exceptions can be found to any rule. Nevertheless, the word "amateur" does carry a connotation that the person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community and, in particular, may not fully share its values. The growth of specialisation in the nineteenth century, with its consequent requirement of a longer, more complex training, implied greater problems for amateur participation in science. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematical or laboratory training, and can be illustrated in terms of the development of geology in the United Kingdom.
A comparison of British geological publications over the last century and a half reveals not simply an increasing emphasis on the primacy of research, but also a changing definition of what constitutes an acceptable research paper. Thus, in the nineteenth century, local geological studies represented worthwhile re
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