Science is making the future, and nations are busy making future scientists. The more science that emerges from this investment, the greater the need for us to follow the gist of the science with sufficient understanding. In other words, if we the ordinary people are to keep pace with science, we need more science writers, and more science writing that is clear, wise and eloquent, and that demands to be read. People often feel excluded from science, convinced that it takes an advanced degree to understand what scientists do. As a result, they defensively shrug off the whole business as an exclusive realm of little relevance to their lives. One of the surest cures for scientific ___________ is great scientific literature, writing that does not merely translate technical terms into plain English or explain complicated ideas simply.

① intolerance ② immorality ③ illiteracy

④ irregularity ⑤ manipulation

위 지문은 일반 대중들이 과학으로부터 유리되는 것을 막기 위해 복잡한 과학을 단순하게 설명해주는 과학책들이 필요하다는 내용입니다. 과학을 쉽게 풀어 설명하자는 입장이죠.

14년도 수능 35번

Mathematics will attract those it can attract, but it will do nothing to overcome resistance to science. Science is universal in principle but in practice it speaks to very few. Mathematics may be considered a communication skill of the highest type, frictionless so to speak; and at the opposite pole from mathematics, the fruits of science show the practical benefits of science without the use of words. But those fruits are ambivalent. Science as science does not speak; ideally, all scientific concepts are mathematized when scientists communicate with one another, and when science displays its products to non-scientists it need not, and indeed is not able to, resort to salesmanship. When science speaks to others, it is no longer science, and the scientist becomes or has to hire a publicist who dilutes the exactness of mathematics. In doing so, the scientist reverses his drive toward mathematical exactness in favor of rhetorical vagueness and metaphor, thus __________________. [3점]

① degrading his ability to use the scientific language needed for good salesmanship

② surmounting the barrier to science by associating science with mathematics

③ inevitably making others who are unskillful in mathematics hostile to science

④ neglecting his duty of bridging the gap between science and the public

⑤ violating the code of intellectual conduct that defines him as a scientist

위 지문은 과학은 수학으로만 말해야 하는데 비유와 같은 각종 수사법을 사용하여 설명하기 시작하면 과학자가 더 이상 과학자가 아니게 된다는 내용입니다. 바로 위 지문과 반대되는 입장이죠.

정리하면 각 접근법 별 로 장단점이 있습니다

과학에 수사법을 적용하면 일반대중들도 이해하기 쉽게 현상을 설명할 수 있지만 본질을 제대로 설명할 수 없거나 듣는 사람을 속이게 됩니다.

과학을 수식으로만 설명하면 애매함도 모호함도 없는 엄격한 과학을 유지할 수 있지만 일반대중들이 접근하기 어렵다는 단점이 있습니다.