Nuclear energy, despite its early promise a source of eleetrical power, is still under dis
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Today's astronomy students not only seek an up-to-date summary of astronomical facts: they ask, as people have asked for ages, about our basic relations to the rest of the universe. They may study astronomy partly to seek points of contact between science and other human endeavors: philosophy, history, politics, environmental action, even the arts and religion.
Science fiction writers and special effect artists on recent films help today's students realize that unseen worlds of space are real places—not abstract concepts. Today's students are citizens of a more real, more vast cosmos than conceptualized by students of a decade ago.
In designing this edition, the Wadsworh editors and I have tried to respond to these developments. Rather than jumping at the start into murky waters of cosmology, I have begun with the viewpoint of ancient people on Earth and worked outward across the universe. This method of organization automatically (if loosely) reflects the order of humanity's discoveries about astronomy and provides a unifying theme of increasing distance and scale.
This passage is most probably taken from
A.an article of popular science.
B.the introduction of a book of astronomy.
C.a lecture given by the author to astronomy students.
D.the preface of a piece of science fiction.
After several nuclear disasters, a _________ has raged over the safety of nuclear energy.
A.quarrel
B.suspicion
C.verdict
D.controversy
The nuclear family ____ two parents (mother and father) and their children.
A: consists of
B: consist of
C: is consisted of
D: consists
The mother and father in the form of the nucleus, or the center, of the nuclear family.()
Two nuclear power stations __________in the past ten years.
A.have been built
B.built
C.would be built
D.are built
Traditionally, the father of a nuclear family earned money for the family () the mother cared for the house and the children.
A.when
B.while
C.as
D.for
Nuclear science should be developed to benefit people _________ harm them.
A.more than
B.better than
C.other than
D.rather than