大学英语四级新题型透析及模拟冲刺试题带答案(3)

G) For all its success..the United States remains deeply hesitant about sustaining the

research-university model. Must politicians recugnize the link between investment inscience and national economic strength, but support for research funding has beenunsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and2003, but has risen more slowly than inflation since then. Support for the physicalsciences and engineering barely kept pace with inflation during that same period. Theattempt to make up lost ground is welcome, but the nation would be better served bysteady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of long-term GDP growth,which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year.