“I want to know God’s thoughts... the rest are details.”
Based on the quotation above, it can be said that
16 God’s thought is all one needs to know.17 if you know God’s thoughts, you can forget the rest.
18 God’s thoughts were unknown to Einstein.
Text for items 19 through 26.
(Os números no texto se referem às linhas, na prova original)
The nature of science and scientific theories
1 Science is a method of explaining the natural world.It assumes that if you can observe or measure anything, it is
amenable(1) to scientific investigation. Science also assumes that
4 the universe operates according to regularities which scientific
investigations can discover and explain. The testing of various
explanations of natural phenomena for their consistency with
7 empirical(2) data is an essential part of the methodology of science.
Explanations that are not consistent with empirical
evidence or cannot be tested empirically are not a part of
10 science. As a result, explanations of natural phenomena that
are not based on evidence but on myths, personal beliefs,
religious values, and superstitions are not scientific.
13 Furthermore, because science is limited to explanations of
natural phenomena through the use of empirical evidence, it
cannot provide religious or ultimate explanations.
1 amenable: that can be tested by something.
2 empirical: based on what is experienced or seen, rather than on theory.
Adapted from Internet: (with adaptations).
According to the text above, it can be deduced that
19 science is particularly concerned with abstract ideas.20 explanations of the natural world must be consistent with empirical evidence so that they can be considered scientific.
21 everything in the natural world can be measured by scientific method.
22 science and religion take into consideration the universe.
In the text,
23 “also” (Linha 3) means in addition.24 “assumes” (L.3) can be correctly replaced by proves.
25 “their” (L.6) refers to “The testing” (L.5).
26 “phenomena” (L.10) is a plural form.
Eureka! – the birth of science
That man ever managed to develop a ‘scientific’attitude to the natural world is one of the true wonders of
human thought. And answering the question of where and
how this attitude began to be noticed can help us better
understand the world we live in and the science that
governs it.
Eureka! shows that science proper began with the
Greeks. Disciplines as diverse as Medicine, Biology,
Engineering, Mathematics and Cosmology all have their
roots in ancient Greece. Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras,
Archimedes and Hippocrates were among its stars — master
architects all of modern, as well as ancient, science. But
what lay behind this colossal eruption of scientific activity?
Free from intellectual and religious dogma, the
Greeks rejected explanation in terms of myths and
capricious gods, and, in distinguishing between the natural
and the supernatural, they were the first to discover nature.
They began to develop and test new theories, leading to a
rapid increase in the sophistication of knowledge, and
ultimately to an awareness of the distinction between science
and technology.
Adapted from Internet: (with adaptations).
Based on the text above, judge the following items.
27 It is correct to say that the fundamentals of science started with the Greeks.28 Modern science has nothing to do with the classical scientific tradition.
29 Some ancient people believed in myths.
30 The Greeks kept science and religion apart.
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