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　　Carl Sagan

　　1. "No one has ever succeeded in conveying the wonder . . . and joy of science as widely . . . and few as well." That praise was given on Carl Sagan when he was honoured with the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award given by the National Academy of Science. On 20 December 1996, Carl Sagan died at age 62 of pneumonia. In my experience, he was much more than a prominent populariser. He was a brilliant scientist with solid achievements.

　　2. I first met Sagan at a meeting of the AAAS-the American Association for the Advancement of Science-where he took part in a session on the Viking Mars Project. When Viking landed on Mars in 1976, it was at a site he had helped select. Then I interviewed him in Washington, D. C., after Mariner had sent back spectacular pictures of the Martian surface. Sagan had acted as a head of one of Mariner's imaging teams. The interview, "Close-up Photos Reveal a Turbulent Mars," appeared in Popular Science in September 1972.

　　3. I had originally headlined the story "The Red Planed Isn't Dead," but Sagan asked me to change it. "I'm in enough hot water with some of my colleagues as it is," he said, referring to the anger felt by some scientists over his growing fame as a populariser. That fame reached a zenith during his 1980 13-part television series "Cosmos", with an audience of 400 million people in 60 countries. Along the way, he captured Pulitzer Prize for his book The Dragons of Eden.

　　4. He was noted for the vigour of his logic style, especially when criticizing some piece of pseudoscience. I remembered a 1973 AAAS meeting at which he destroyed the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky, who was maintaining that only a few thousands of years ago, Venus had repeatedly collided with Earth and Mars; events well noted. Velikovsky said, in the bible.

　　5. Sagan was often heard observing that drawings of flying saucers never included a door. "How did those creatures of outer space get in and out?" he once asked. Once he said that pseudoscience is embraced in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.

　　练习：

　　1. Paragraph 1 ______________

　　2. Paragraph 2 ______________

　　3. Paragraph 3 ______________

　　4. Paragraph 5 ______________

　　A. Sagan as a science populariser

　　B. Honour Sagan enjoyed

　　C. Sagan's publications

　　D. Description of the first meeting with Sagan

　　E. Sagan's criticism on pseudoscience

　　F. Sagan in trouble with other scientists

　　5. In Sagan's opinion, Velikovsky might be ______________.

　　6. With Cosmos and others, Sagan enjoyed his fame as ______________.

　　7. From the passage we may conclude that the author of the passage may be ______________.

　　8. From the description we know that Sagan was ______________.

　　A. a member of the National Academy of Science

　　B. a pseudo-scientist

　　C. a science populariser

　　D. a reporter

　　E. an astronomer

　　F. a physicist

　　答案：BDFE BCDE