依下文回答第 11 題至第 15 題
Communication is of basic importance within science itself. I think we would all agree that free
communication is essential for progress in science, 11 there have been problems at the frontier with
technology because in the world of commerce you cannot reveal everything you are doing. These frontier
problems have been 12 in recent times; in many fields, my own of molecular biology 13 , the old
openness has to some extent disappeared. Some of my younger colleagues do not want to talk in public about
their work, because they think that if they speak about their own “secret,” somebody else will 14 it and
make money out of it. Of course, this is only a partial view: science is also for the benefit of mankind. But
the process of 15 knowledge from the academic world, with its tradition of openness, to the world of
technology and commerce does present difficulties that have still not been resolved. In my view they are very
serious problems.
【題組】14 (A)expect (B)exploit (C)expend (D)explode