SECTION III: READING (6.0 POINTS)

Part 1. Questions 56 to 65 (2 points - 0.2/ each)

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

The importance of science

          The aim of science is to (56) ________ out how the world and everything in it, and beyond it, works. Some people, though, (57) ________ that much of what is done in the name of science is a waste of time and money. What is the (58) ________ in investigating how atoms behave or in studying stars billions of kilometres away? Science, they argue, is of (59) ________ only if it has some practical use. When the Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell (60) ________ experiments with electricity and magnetism in the late 19th century, he had no particular end in (61) ________ and was certainly not (62) ________ to make money; he was simply trying to reveal more about how the world works. And yet his work laid the (63) ________ for our modern way of life. Computers, the internet, satellites, mobile phones, televisions, medical scanners all owe their (64) ________ to the fact that a scientist (65) ________ the need to understand the world a little better.

The aim of science is to (56) ________ out how the world and everything in it, and beyond it, works