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Part IV Reading Comprehension (30%)

Passage Two

This issue of Science contains announcements for more than 100 different Gorgon Research Conferences, on topics that range from atomic physics to developmental biology. The brainchild（某人的主意）of Neil Gordon of Johns Hopkins University, these week-long meetings are designed to promote intimate, informal discussions of frontier science. Often confined to fewer than 125 attendees, they have traditionally been held in remote places with minimal distractions. Beginning in the early 1960s, I attended the summer

Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference in rural New Hampshire, sharing austere （简朴的）dorm facilities in a private boy’s school with randomly assigned roommates. As a beginning scientist, I found the question period after each talk especially fascinating, providing valuable insights into the personalities and ways of thinking of many senior scientists whom I had not encountered previously. Back then, there were no cellphones and no Internet, and all of the speakers seemed to stay for the entire week. During the long, session-free afternoons, graduate students mingled freely with professors. Many lifelong friendships were begun, and—as Gordon intended一new scientific collaborations began. Leap forward to today, and every scientist can gain immediate access to a vast store of scientific thought and to millions of other scientists via the Internet. Why, nevertheless, do in-person scientific meetings remain so valuable for a life in science?

Part of the answer is that science works best when there is a deep mutual trust and understanding between the collaborators, which is hard to develop from a distance. But most important is the critical role that face-to-face scientific meetings play in stimulating a random collision of ideas and approaches. The best science occurs when someone combines the knowledge gained by other scientists in non-obvious ways to create a new understanding of how the world works. A successful scientist needs to deeply believe, whatever the problem being tackled, that there is always a better way to approach that problem than the path currently being taken. The scientist is then constantly on the alert for new paths to take in his or her work, which is essential for making breakthroughs. Thus, as much as possible, scientific meetings should be designed to expose the attendees to ways of thinking and techniques that are different from the ones that they already know.

66. Assembled at Gordon Research Conference are those who .

A. are physicists and biologists B. just start doing their sciences

C. stay in the forefront of science D. are accomplished senior scientists

67. Speaking of the summer Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference, the author thinks highly of .

A. the personalities of senior scientists B.the question period after each talk

C. the austere facilities around D. the week-long duration

68. It can be inferred from the author that the value of the in-person scientific conference .

A. does not change with times

B.can be explored online exclusively

0. lies in exchanging the advances in life science

D. is questioned in establishing a vast store of ideas

69. The author believes that the face-to-face scientific conferences can help the attendees better .

A. understand what making a breakthrough means to them

B.expose themselves to novel ideas and new approaches

C. foster the passion for doing science

D. tackle the same problem in science

70. What would the author most probably talk about in the following paragraphs?

A. How to explore scientific collaborations. B. How to make scientific breakthroughs.

C. How to design scientific meetings. D. How to think like a genius.

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