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[C] acquire an extension of its business license . [D] get permission to purchase a power plant.
28. According to Paragraph 4, Entergy seems to have problems with its [A] managerial practices. [B] technical innovativeness. [C] financial goals. [D] business vision
29. In the author?s view, the Vermont case will test [A] Entergy?s capacity to fulfill all its promises. [B] the mature of states? patchwork regulations. [C] the federal authority over nuclear issues .
[D] the limits of states? power over nuclear issues. 30. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that [A] Entergy?s business elsewhere might be affected. [B] the authority of the NRC will be defied.
[C] Entergy will withdraw its Plymouth application. [D] Vermont?s reputation might be damaged. Text 3
In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work. But in the everyday practice of science, discovery frequently follows an ambiguous and complicated route. We aim to be objective, but we cannot escape the context of our unique life experience. Prior knowledge and interest influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take. Opportunities for misinterpretation, error, and self-deception abound. Consequently, discovery claims should be thought of as protoscience. Similar to newly staked mining claims, they are full of potential. But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery. This is the credibility process, through which the individual researcher?s me, here, now becomes the communit