The first four chapters of Kitcher's book give a very brief introduction to evolution. At appropriate places, he introduces the criticisms of the creationists and provides answers. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programmes and tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise. When their basic motivation is religious, one might have expected more Christian behavior.
Kitcher is a philosopher, and this may account, in part, for the clarity and effectiveness of his arguments. The non-specialist wiU be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory. The final chapter on the creationists will be extremely clear to all. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: \it does-and all would be well were reason the only judge in the creation-ism/evolution debate .
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(A) evolution in its true sense as to the origin of the universe (B) a notion of the creation of religion
(C) the scientific explanation of the earth formation (D) the deceptive theory about the origin of the universe
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2. Kitcher's book is intended to __.
(A) recommend the views of the evolutionists (B) expose the true features of creationists (C) curse bitterly at this opponents (D) launch a surprise attack on creationists 3. From the passage we can infer that__
(A) reasoning has played a decisive role in the debate (B) creationists do not base their argument on reasoning (C) evolutionary theory is too difficult for non-specialists (D) creationism is supported by scientific findings 4.This passage appears to be a digest of__ (A) a book review (B) a scientific paper (C) a magazine feature (D) a newspaper editorial
先来读问题，第一题问Creationism这个词是什么，不算涉及具体信息的。因为这个词可能会多次出现，它的意思可能要结合上下文才能明白。但是这提醒我们遇到这个词的时候要好好读读。第二题问Kitcher's的书是用来干嘛的，Kitcher's的书是具体内容，要记。第三题是道infer题，不记。第四题问这篇文章看起来像是什么的摘要。（digest这词不认识也没关系，因为后面有一个of，可见说的是四个选项中的一部分），不记。这个问题在看完文章之后，结合文章的主题、用词特点等等才能做出回答。
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需要记得只有第2题，即Kitcher's的书是用来干嘛的。下面可以开始读文章了。
Rumor has it that more than 20 books on creationism/evolution are in the publisher ' s pipelines. A few have already appeared. The goal of all will be to try to explain to a confused and often unenlightened citizenry that there are not two equally valid scientific theories for the origin and evolution of universe and life. Cosmology , geology , and biology have provided a consistent , unified, and constantly improving account of what happened. \time\in the classrooms whenever the scientific accounts of evolution are evil, is based on religion, not science. Virtually all scientists and the majority of nonfundamentalist religious leaders have come to regard \religion.
The first four chapters of Kitcher's book give a very brief introduction to evolution. At appropriate places, he introduces the criticisms of the creationists and provides answers.?In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programmes and tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise. When their basic
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motivation is religious, one might have expected more Christian behavior.
Kitcher is a philosopher, and this may account, in part, for the clarity and effectiveness of his arguments. The non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory. The final chapter on the creationists will be extremely clear to all. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: \it does-and all would be well were reason the only judge in the creation-ism/evolution debate .
谣言有它，超过20本书关于creationism或者进化论的都在出
版者的pipelines里。（怎么第一句话就看不懂啊？没关系，因为从第4道题里能看出这篇文章是一个节选，前面可能有内容，继续往下看就是了，不要受第一句话没看懂的影响）一些已经出现了。所有的目的都是为了解释向迷惑的并且常常是unenlightened的公民，没有两个同等正确的科学理论解释宇宙和生命的起源和进化。Cosmology , geology , and biology（专有名词，看不懂没关系），提供了consistent , unified和总是改进的account关于发生的事情。科学的creationism，被推动一些“equal time”在教室里无论进化论的科学accounts是邪恶的，是基于宗教而不是科学。（又看不懂，没事儿，继续）Virtually所有的科学家和大多数的
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非基础的宗教领袖开始把科学creationism看作是坏的科学和坏的宗教。
四章里第一章，Kitcher's 的书（Kitcher's book出现了！先划
下来再说）给出了一个很简要的介绍关于进化。在适当的位置，他介绍了批评creationists的话并提供了答案。在后三章，他takes off他的手套，给了creationists狠狠的一拳。他描述了他们的programmes和tactics,，并且，对于那些不熟悉creationists的方法的人，他们欺骗和distortion的程度会成为一个不令人愉快的惊讶。当他们的基本motivation是宗教时，一个人可能会期望更多的基督教行为。（第2个问题问Kitcher's book是用来干嘛的，这一段都在讲Kitcher's book的书的内容和目的，但是可见最后说的那些，即“在后三章之后”的才是这本书的主要目的，也才是和第2题对应的，所以划下来，写上题号2）
Kitcher是一个哲学家，这个可能能够account，部分的，clarity和effectiveness他的arguments。非专家将能够获得至少一个notion关于数据和argument的种类，支持进化论。最后一章关于creationists会非常清楚对于所有人来说。在这本好书的dust jacket上，Stephen Jay Gould说：这本书代表着原因本身。确实如此——所有的都会好，如果理由是唯一的判断在creationism/evolution之争上。
文章读完了，我们明显地感觉到这篇比上篇难懂得多。好多
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