We live in a society which there is a lot of 【1】______ talk about science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with schooling, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people 【2】______ with comparable education in Western Europe. There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers -- how to build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So 【3】______ if you ask them to explain about the principles of 【4】______ physics that have gone into creating the computer, you don't have the faintest idea. 【5】______ The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human creative power. 【6】______ It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between【7】______ science and technology. Lots of people don't differ 【8】______ between the two. Science is the production of new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really very different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others. 【9】______ Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, it is not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to 【10】______ forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous. 【M1】