UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSE DE CALDAS
INSTITUTO DE LENGUAS DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL – ILUD
INTERMEDIATE II
AUTONOMOUS No. 4
LISTENING
I. Listen to the text and answer the questions 1-8
USE OF ENGLISH
II. Complete the table
Verb
convert
produce
conduct
impress
support
impose
Person noun
Adjective
Abstract noun
VOCABULARY
Use the words in the box to complete the text below:
Research Revolutions Structure assumption assumptions assumptions assumptions commitments
community community complements conceptual consuming devoted ensure established foundation
foundations initiation licenses normal normal paradigms prior prior professional professional
professional re-evaluation reconstruction require revolutions rigid shifts tradition tradition
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The ___________of Scientific ______________
by Thomas S. Kuhn
I - Introduction
A scientific _________cannot practice its trade without some set of received beliefs. These beliefs form the
__________of the "educational ____________that prepares and _____________the student for
______________practice". The nature of the "rigorous and _______________" preparation helps
__________________that the received beliefs are firmly fixed in the student's mind.
Scientists take great pains to defend the _________________that scientists know what the
world is like...To this end, "___________ science" will often suppress novelties which
undermine its ________________. ________________is therefore not about discovering
the unknown, but rather "a strenuous and ________________attempt to force nature into
the __________________boxes supplied by ______________education".
A shift in __________________________to shared ______________takes place
when an anomaly undermines the basic tenets of the current scientific practice
These _____________are what Kuhn describes as scientific _________________"the _____________-shattering __________________to the ________________-bound
activity of _____________science" New ________________- "__________________" ________________the ______________of __________________________and the ______________of
____________________facts. This is difficult and time _______________. It is also strongly resisted by the
________________________________.
ENTERTAINMENT
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