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※ (A)와 (B)에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은? (16~17)
To speak of ‘the aim’ of scientific activity may perhaps sound a little 　(A)　; for clearly, different scientists have different aims, and science itself (whatever that may mean) has no aims. I admit all this. And yet it seems that when we speak of science we do feel, more or less clearly, that there is something characteristic of scientific activity; and since scientific activity looks pretty much like a rational activity, and since a rational activity must have some aim, the attempt to describe the aim of science may not be entirely 　(B)　.

(A) naive (B) futile

(A) reasonable (B) fruitful

(A) chaotic (B) acceptable

(A) consistent (B) discarded