2018年托�？谡Z考試題庫：偽科學(xué)

　　新托�？谡Z題目回憶版本一：

　　考題回憶：

　　閱讀部分：偽科學(xué)pseudoscience：有些人會把misleading claims放到廣告里，欺騙消費(fèi)者。

　　聽力部分：教授舉例：關(guān)于益智游戲(brain games)。這些公司在網(wǎng)站上宣稱這些游戲會讓人變聰明，還說是專家已經(jīng)做了驗(yàn)證，于是很多人會因?yàn)檫@些所謂科學(xué)依據(jù)花錢購買產(chǎn)品。然后有一群研究人員上網(wǎng)看，發(fā)現(xiàn)這些實(shí)驗(yàn)設(shè)計(jì)不嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)，并不能得出確切結(jié)論(not convincing)，所以人們都花了冤枉錢。

　　新托�？谡Z題目回憶版本二：

　　閱讀：欺詐營銷是指在廣告中使用一些看似科學(xué)但是其實(shí)沒有經(jīng)過 research 證實(shí)的東西，通過夸大廣告來吸引消費(fèi)者。

　　聽力：lecture; 一個online brain game 被宣傳是益智的，但是其實(shí)沒有那么神奇。專家調(diào)查后公布，人們才知道自己在游戲上花的錢是 useless 的。

　　托�？谡Z范文一：

　　Pseudoscience refers to the activity of inserting misleading claims appeared as scientific facts into advertisement in order to lure customers to buy certain products or services.

　　In the lecture, the professor gives an example of brain games. There were companies claiming on the internet that the games they developed would make people smarter, and they announced that certain experts already made thorough research on the effectiveness of these brain games. As a result, lots of customers bought these games because they trusted these claims. However, later these claims turned out to be fake, and the research done by the so-called experts were indeed insufficient, and thus not convincing.