News reports often focus on disputes among scientists over the validity of preliminary (untested) data, hypotheses, and models (which by definition are tentative). This aspect of science-- 1 because it has not been widely 2 and accepted--is called frontier science. The media 3 to focus on frontier science because because its so-called "breakthroughs" make good news stories. Just because something is in the 4 of frontier science, 5 , does not mean that it isn't worthy of serious consideration; 6 ,such matters need further study to determine their 7 .
1.A controversial --B suspicious ---C debatable -----D untrustworthy
2.A checked -------B tested -------C approved -----D confirmed
3.A prefer ---------B tempt --------C intend --------D tend
4.A hedge ---------B circle --------C realm ----------D scope
5.A thereby -------B however ----- C moreover ----D notwithstanding
6.A rather ---------B otherwise -----C anyway ------D furthermore
7.A integrity -------B availability -----C reliability -----D controversy
翻译：
There are probably no questions we can think up that can't be answered , sooner or later , including even the matter of cosciousness.
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1.A controversial可引起争论 debatable辩论
2.B untest 未经检验的
3.D tend to focus on 倾向于/往往集中注意于
4.C hedge障碍，界限 ；circle 集团，……界——指人；
realm 意为（region,world,area)领域 ；scope 范围——指活动的影响等
5.B
6.A rather 相当于 instead
7.C reliability 可靠性
翻译：迟早可能不存在我们想得出但解答不了的问题，甚至包括我们意识到的问题。
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