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[B] journals are strengthening their statistical checks.
[C] few journals are blamed for mistakes in data analysis.
[D] lack of data analysis is common in research projects.
32.
The phrase “flagged up” (Para. 2) is the closest in meaning to ______.
[A] found
[B] revised
[C] marked
[D] stored
33.
Giovanni Parmigiani believes that the establishment of the SBoRE may ______.
[A] pose a threat to all its peers
[B] meet with strong opposition
[C] increase Science’s circulation
[D] set an example for other journals
34.
David Vaux holds that what Science is doing now ______.
[A] adds to researchers’ workload
[B] diminishes the role of reviewers
[C] has room for further improvement
[D] is to fail in the foreseeable future
35.
Which of the following is the best title of the text? ______.
[A] Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers
[B] Professional Statisticians Deserve More Respect
[C] Data Analysis Finds Its Way onto Editors’ Desks
[D] Statisticians Are Coming Back with Science
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Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions”. Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” in society should be profit and the market. But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit”.discourse
Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.
As the hacking trial concludes—finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge—the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands. Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people. This is hacking on an industri
al scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.
In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place. One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived. The core of her successful defense was that she knew nothing.
In today’s world, it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run. Perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice, fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.
The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding, to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.
36. According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by ______.
[A] the consequences of the current sorting mechanism
[B] companies’ financial loss due to immoral practices
[C] governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues

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[D] the wide misuse of integrity among institutions
37. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that ______.
[A] Glem Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime.
[B] more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.
[C] Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.
[D] phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.
38. The author believes the Rebekah Brooks’s defense ______.
[A] revealed a cunning personality    [B] centered on trivial issues
[C] was hardly convincing    [D] was part of a conspiracy
39. The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows ______.
[A] generally distorted values    [B] unfair wealth distribution

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