76. Science is not so meritocratic because ____.

1. it is color-blind
2. it is racially discriminative
3. it awards wrong research workers
4. it is practiced by the white exclusively

77. The embarrassing problem addressed in the passage ____.

1. was proved by Newsweek magazine's survey
2. shocked government scientific panels
3. was revealed by the Royal Society
4. all of the above

78. One of the positive changes afoot is ____.

1. funding research institutions or labs
2. setting up a scientific career ladder
3. hiding the racial discrimination
4. belittling racial backgrounds

79. To bite the bullet of affirmative action is ____.

1. to set up black role models in Europe
2. to keep ethnic issues under surveillance
3. to restrict fellowship and grants to the black
4. to balance the distribution of fellowship and grants between the white and the black

80. The author argues that color matters because it is of ____.

1. the nature of science
2. credibility in science
3. an embarrassing tokenism
4. mutual trust between generations

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