2005年职称英语考试理工类A级考试真题及答案解析（二）

2012-12-17 来自于：课评集

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　　Mad Scientist Stereotype Outdated

　　Do people still imagine a physicist as a bearded man in glasses or has the image of the mad

　　scientist changed? The Institute of Physics set out to find out whether the stereotype of a physics

　　‘boffin’(科学家)still exists by conducting a survey on shoppers in London．The people were

　　asked to identify the physicist from a photograph of a line-up of possible suspects．98 percent of

　　those asked got it wrong．The majority of people picked a white male of around 60，wearing

　　glasses and with a white beard．

　　While this stereotype may have been the image of all average physicist fifty years ago，the

　　reality is now very different Since 1960 the number of young women entering physics has

　　doubled and the average age of a physicist is now 31．

　　The stereotype of the absent-minded scientist has lasted a long time because the media and

　　Hollywood help promote the image of men in white lab coats with glasses sitting by blackboards

　　full of equations(等式)or working with fizzing(嘶嘶响)test tubes．These stereotypes are really

　　damaging to society．Very good school children are put off studying science because they don’t

　　see people like themselves on television or in magazines doing science．They simply don’t relate

　　to the media’s image of the mad scientist．

　　This is one reason why fewer young people are choosing to do science at university．If we

　　want to encourage more young people to study science subjects，we need to change this image of

　　the scientist and make science careers more attractive．But we must also develop children’s

　　interest in science．

　　In an attempt to change this negative image，an increasing number of science festivals are

　　being organized．Thousands of people from secondary schools are also encouraged to take part in the internationwide science competitions of which the most popular are the national science Olympiads．Winning national teams then get the opportunity to take part in the International Science Olympiads which are held in a different county every year．These events are all interesting for the young people who take part but they only involve a small proportion of students who are already interested in science．It seems that there is a long way to go before science becomes attractive as subjects like computer studies or fashion and design．

　　16 Most people have similar ideas of what a physicist looks like．