LSAT考试全真试题四SECTION1（2）
分类: Lsat英语
(60) about technological risks
1. Which one of the following best expresses the main point of the passage?
(A) Risk communicators are effectively addressing the proloferation of complex technologies that have increasing impact on public health and safety.
(B) Risk communicators should assess lay people s understanding of technologies in order to be able to give them the information they need to make reasonable decisions.
(C) Experts who want to communicate to the public about the possible risks of complex technologies must simplify their message to ensure that it is understandable
(D) Risk communication can be perceived as the task of persuading lay people to accept the impact of a particular technology on their lives.
(E) Lay people can be unduly influenced by subjective concerns when making decisions about technological risks.
2. The authors of the passage would be most likely to agree that the primary purpose of risk communication should be to
(A) explain rather than to persuade
(B) promote rather than to justify
(C) influence experts rather than to influence lay people
(D) allay people s fears about mundane hazards rather than about exotic hazards.
(E) foster public acceptance of new technologies rather than to acknowledge people s ethical concerns
3. According to the passage,it is probable that which one of the following will occur when risk communicators attempt to communicate with lay people who have mistaken ideas about a particular technology?
(A) The lay people perceiving that the risk communicators have provided more-reliable information, will discard their mistaken notion
(B) The lay people will only partially revise their ideas on the basis of the new information
(C) The lay people fitting the new information into their existing framework will interpret the communication differently that the risk communicators had intended
(D) The lay people misunderstanding the new infromation will further distort the information when they communicate it to other lay people
(E) The lay people will ignore any communication about a technology they consider potentially dangerous
4. Which one of the following is most clearly an example of the kind of risk perception discussed in the "studies" mentioned in line 8?
(A) A skydiver checks the lines on her parachute several times before a jump because tangled lines often keep the parachutes from opening properly
(B) A person decides to quit smoking in order to lesson the probability of lung damage to himself and his family
(C) A homeowner who decides to have her house tested for radon also decides not to allow anyone to smoke in her house
(D) A person who often weaves in and out of traffic while driving his car at excessive speeds worries about meteorites hitting his house
(E) A group of townspeople opposes the building of a nuclear waste dump outsider their town and proposes that the dump be placed in another town.
5. It can be inferred that the authors of the passage would be more likely than would the risk communicators discussed in the first paragraph to emphasize which one of the following?
(A) lay people s tendency to become alarmed about technologies that they find new or strange
(B) lay people s tendency to compare risks that experts would not consider comparable
(C) the need for lay people to adopt scientists advice about technological risk.
(D) the inability of lay people to rank hazards by the number of fatalities caused annually
(E) the impact of lay people s value systems on their perceptions of risk.
6. According to the passage many lay people believe which one of the following about risk communication?
(A) It focuses excessively on mundane hazards
(B) It is a tool used to manipulate the publie
(C) It is a major cause of inaccuracies in public knowledge about science
(D) It most often funcitions to help people make informed decisions
(E) Its level of effectiveness depends on the level of knowledge its audience already has
In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon city, south Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company
(5) of their employers. who upon the formation of the union had shut down operations without paying the workers from the beginning the union cause was championed by an unprecedented coalition of Korean American groups and deeply affected the Korean American
(10) community on several levels.
First, it served as a rallying focus for a diverse community often divided by generation, class and political ideologies. Most notably, the Pico cause mobilized many young second-generation Korean
(15) Americans, many of whom had never been part of a political campaign before, let alone one involving Korean issues. Members of this generation unlike first-generation Korean Americans, generally fall within the more privileged sectors of the Korean American
(20) community and often feel alienated from their Korean roots In addition to raising the political consciousness of young Korean Americans, the Pico struggle sparked among them new interest in their cultural identity The Pieo workers also suggested new roles that can be
(25) played by recent immigrants, particularly working-class immigrants These immigrants knowledge of working conditions overseas can help to globalize the perspective of their communities and can help to establish international ties on a more personal level, as
1. Which one of the following best expresses the main point of the passage?
(A) Risk communicators are effectively addressing the proloferation of complex technologies that have increasing impact on public health and safety.
(B) Risk communicators should assess lay people s understanding of technologies in order to be able to give them the information they need to make reasonable decisions.
(C) Experts who want to communicate to the public about the possible risks of complex technologies must simplify their message to ensure that it is understandable
(D) Risk communication can be perceived as the task of persuading lay people to accept the impact of a particular technology on their lives.
(E) Lay people can be unduly influenced by subjective concerns when making decisions about technological risks.
2. The authors of the passage would be most likely to agree that the primary purpose of risk communication should be to
(A) explain rather than to persuade
(B) promote rather than to justify
(C) influence experts rather than to influence lay people
(D) allay people s fears about mundane hazards rather than about exotic hazards.
(E) foster public acceptance of new technologies rather than to acknowledge people s ethical concerns
3. According to the passage,it is probable that which one of the following will occur when risk communicators attempt to communicate with lay people who have mistaken ideas about a particular technology?
(A) The lay people perceiving that the risk communicators have provided more-reliable information, will discard their mistaken notion
(B) The lay people will only partially revise their ideas on the basis of the new information
(C) The lay people fitting the new information into their existing framework will interpret the communication differently that the risk communicators had intended
(D) The lay people misunderstanding the new infromation will further distort the information when they communicate it to other lay people
(E) The lay people will ignore any communication about a technology they consider potentially dangerous
4. Which one of the following is most clearly an example of the kind of risk perception discussed in the "studies" mentioned in line 8?
(A) A skydiver checks the lines on her parachute several times before a jump because tangled lines often keep the parachutes from opening properly
(B) A person decides to quit smoking in order to lesson the probability of lung damage to himself and his family
(C) A homeowner who decides to have her house tested for radon also decides not to allow anyone to smoke in her house
(D) A person who often weaves in and out of traffic while driving his car at excessive speeds worries about meteorites hitting his house
(E) A group of townspeople opposes the building of a nuclear waste dump outsider their town and proposes that the dump be placed in another town.
5. It can be inferred that the authors of the passage would be more likely than would the risk communicators discussed in the first paragraph to emphasize which one of the following?
(A) lay people s tendency to become alarmed about technologies that they find new or strange
(B) lay people s tendency to compare risks that experts would not consider comparable
(C) the need for lay people to adopt scientists advice about technological risk.
(D) the inability of lay people to rank hazards by the number of fatalities caused annually
(E) the impact of lay people s value systems on their perceptions of risk.
6. According to the passage many lay people believe which one of the following about risk communication?
(A) It focuses excessively on mundane hazards
(B) It is a tool used to manipulate the publie
(C) It is a major cause of inaccuracies in public knowledge about science
(D) It most often funcitions to help people make informed decisions
(E) Its level of effectiveness depends on the level of knowledge its audience already has
In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon city, south Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company
(5) of their employers. who upon the formation of the union had shut down operations without paying the workers from the beginning the union cause was championed by an unprecedented coalition of Korean American groups and deeply affected the Korean American
(10) community on several levels.
First, it served as a rallying focus for a diverse community often divided by generation, class and political ideologies. Most notably, the Pico cause mobilized many young second-generation Korean
(15) Americans, many of whom had never been part of a political campaign before, let alone one involving Korean issues. Members of this generation unlike first-generation Korean Americans, generally fall within the more privileged sectors of the Korean American
(20) community and often feel alienated from their Korean roots In addition to raising the political consciousness of young Korean Americans, the Pico struggle sparked among them new interest in their cultural identity The Pieo workers also suggested new roles that can be
(25) played by recent immigrants, particularly working-class immigrants These immigrants knowledge of working conditions overseas can help to globalize the perspective of their communities and can help to establish international ties on a more personal level, as