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Scientific advances sometimes come as lightning flashes of inspiration. But when scientists sit down to record and take credit o

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问题     Scientific advances sometimes come as lightning flashes of inspiration. But when scientists sit down to record and take credit of what they’ve found, they still use much the same method they have for decades—an article published in a scholarly journal.
    But science’s old-fashioned traditions are changing. The Internet has opened up new forms of publishing in which anyone in the world can find and read a scientific paper. And papers themselves are becoming more interactive, leading readers to the underlying data, videos, and discussions that augment their value. With blogs and e-books providing easy means of self-publishing, some observers are speculating that scholarly journals and their controversial system of peer reviews may not be needed at all.
    "The traditional journal publishing medium we’ve grown accustomed to really needs to evolve and change because that’s not the way people are accessing information," says Mark Gerstein, a professor of biomedical informatics at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Dr. Gerstein cowrote an article, "The Death of the Scientific Paper," which appeared last year on The-Scientist. com, an online science magazine.
    If the hopes of innovators bear fruit, scientific advances will come ever more quickly as online publishing makes past research easier to access and share widely. One new scientific publication, available only online, may signal what’s ahead. The PLoS ONE (plosone. org), a journal begun by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) last month, aims to put as many new scientific articles as possible on the Internet to be read by anyone, free of charge.
    At PLoS ONE, which aspires to be a general science journal along the lines of Science and Nature, the papers themselves are only a starting point. Readers can annotate, comment on, and criticize the findings: Their contributions become permanently attached to the original article. At least one commentator has likened this process to a kind of "electronic Talmud" in which the original document receives elaborate commentary and discussion that over time adds greatly to its value.
    In coming months, says Chris Surridge, the managing editor of PLoS ONE, readers also will be able to rate papers on their quality, such as how surprising or groundbreaking the results were— much in the way Netflix subscribers rate movies they rent using one-to five-star ratings. In this sense, PLoS ONE is moving toward a Web 2. 0 model, which focuses on user-generated content strategies already used by websites such as Digg. com, Slashdot. org, or Amazon. com.
The author cites the example of Mark Gerstein to show that________.
选项 A、the old mode to publish journals should be modified
B、the approach people obtain information has to be kept
C、we are no longer used to the traditional way to publish journals
D、scientific papers are coming to an end in the near future
答案A
解析 本题是例证题。根据题干可定位至第三段首句。该句指出“The traditional journal publishing medium we’ve grown accustomed to really needs to evolve and change because that’s not the way people are accessing information，”says Mark Gerstein，a professor of biomedical informatics at Yale University in New Haven，Conn(“我们以前所熟悉的传统学术性期刊的出版方式确实需要发展和变化，因为这已不再是现在人们获取信息的方式。”康涅狄格州纽黑文市耶鲁大学的生物医药信息学教授马克.格斯坦说)。A项中的old mode和modified分别于原文中的traditional medium和change构成同义替换，故答案选EA-I。第三段首句提到，传统学术性期刊出版的改变是因为这已不再是现在人们获取信息的方式，很明显B项所表达的意思和原文矛盾，故排除；C项在文中并未提及，原文只是说人们获取信息的方式有所改变，且C项并非例子想要说明的问题，故排除；D项是将这位教授的文章标题重新解释了一遍，但明显不是举例所要说明的问题，故排除。
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