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It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out, and if it is really

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问题     It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out, and if it is really good science it is impossible to predict. If the things to be found are actually new, they are by definition unknown in advance. You cannot make choices in this matter. You either have science or you don’t, and if you have it you are obliged to accept the surprising and disturbing pieces of information, along with the neat and promptly useful bits.
    The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating (启发性的) piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment (启蒙运动) to be told by any of us how little we know and how bewildering (茫无头绪的) seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of the 20th century science to the human intellect. In earlier times, we either pretended to understand how things worked or ignored the problem, or simply made up stories to fill the gaps. Now that we have begun exploring in earnest, we are getting glimpses of how huge the questions are, and how far from being answered. Because of this, we are depressed. It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance, the worst spots and here and there the not-so-bad spots, but no true light at the end of the tunnel nor even any tunnels that can yet be trusted.
    But we are making a beginning, and there ought to be some satisfaction. There are probably no questions we can think up that can’t be answered, sooner or later, including even the matter of consciousness. To be sure, there may well be questions we can’t think up, ever, and therefore limits to the reach of human intellect which we will never know about, but that is another matter. Within our limits, we should be able to work our way through to all our answers, if we keep at it long enough, and pay attention. [br] The author believes that______.
选项 A、questions concerning consciousness are outside the scope of scientific research
B、sooner or later man can think up all the questions concerning nature and answer them
C、man can find solutions sooner or later to whatever questions concerning nature he can think up
D、man cannot solve all the problems he can think up because of the limits of human intellect
答案 C
解析 第三段第二句提到，There are probably no questions we canthink up that can’t be answered(可能没有我们想得到却无法回答的问题)。该句中用了双重否定，表示的是肯定的意思，即只要我们能想得到问题，我们迟到会找到解决问题的答案，故答案为[C]。[A]和[D]与原文内容矛盾。原文是说人迟早能对想到的问题给出答案，而并不是说人能想到所有关于自然的问题且都能长到答案，故[B]错误。
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