【例題】How many men would have considered the possibility of an apple falling up into the tree? Newton did because he was not trying to predict anything. He was just wondering. His mind was ready for the unpredictable. Unpredictability is part of the essential nature of research. If you don't have unpredictable things, you don't have research. Scientists tend to forget this when writing their cut and dried reports for the technical journals, but history is filled with examples of it. (1999年第68題)
The author asserts that scientists ________.
[A] shouldn't replace "scientific method" with imaginative thought
[B] shouldn't neglect to speculate on unpredictable things
[C] should write more concise reports for technical journals
[D] should be confident about their research findings
【正確答案】B
4.反話正說
顧名思義,即文中用否定方式來表述一定的內容,而選項中用肯定的方式把同樣的意思在表述一遍。
【例題】Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle.(2000年第54題)
The author seems to believe the revival of the U.S. economy in the 1990s can be attributed to the ________.