Grammer Practice for Portfolio 2

The Uses if Science - an Opinion

Science is important to most people living in the modern world for a number of reasons. One of the major reasons 1.are that science is important to world peace and understanding, to the understanding of technology, and to our understanding of the natural world. Science is also an interesting area of study. Some areas of science 2.is especially interesting because they deal with questions all men and women ask themselves. Scientists try to provide some explanations for what 3.happen to people.

Science is important to world peace in many ways. On one hand, scientists have helped to develop many of the modern tools of war. On the other hand, they have also helped to keep the peace through study and research which 4.have improved life for people everywhere. In our time, scientists have been able to help us understand the problem of supplying the world with enough energy. They have begun to develop a number of solutions to the energy problem, using energy from the sun and from the atom, for example, 5.are one. Scientists have also analyzed the world’s resources. We are going to have to share the resources we have, and we can begin to do this with the knowledge that 6.are provided to us by science.Science is also important to everyone who 7.get affected by modern technology. Many of the things that 8.makes our lives easier and better are the result of advances in technology. Almost everything in the world 9.have been improved or changed in the last hundred years as a result of technology. While some people would ask whether all these changes are good, it is still true that technology 10.affect all of us. And, if the present patterns continue, technology will affect us even more in the future than it does now. In some cases, such as the technology for taking salt out of ocean water, technology may be essential to our lives on earth. In order to understand the modern world and developments in it in the next century, an understanding of science and technology 11.are necessary.

The study of science also provides us with an understanding of the natural world. Scientists are learning to predict such things as earthquakes. This may someday help to save hundreds of lives. Scientists are also continuing to study many other natural events such as storms of various kinds. Scientists are also studying people. They are trying to understand not only what makes people human, but also the things that affect people such as illness. They are studying various other aspects of human biology, also. The study of the natural world by scientists and by students of science help to make the world easier to understand. It has also saved many lives, and 12.improves life for many people all over the world.

Some of the things one 13.study in a science course are extremely interesting questions about people and their lives. Some of these questions are: what are men and women, essentially? What information 14.help us to understand all people better? What information explains where human beings 15.comes from and why they act the way they do? These are all questions that interest scientists and that, when answered, will surely have an effect on our lives.One of the reasons science is hard to study is that there are so many questions without answers. Much of science 16.involve asking questions, and then studying and doing research to try to find the answers. Some questions have been studied by research scientists for many years and the answers are still not known. However, scientists are slowly but surely able to answer more and more questions about life, and these answers change our lives and also 17.explains them.
All of the many different kinds of science 18.is important and interesting. Scientists are asking and answering many interesting and important questions about people and their lives. A basic knowledge of science 19.enable you to understand both the questions and the answers. In the modern world, this ability 20.are essential for everyone.

Passage taken from: Alice Horning, 1988. The Uses of Science-an Opinion in Readings in Contemporary Culture. McGraw-Hill. (Central Lib. PE1128 Hor)

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