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Over dinner a few weeks ago, the novelist Lawrence Naumoff told a troubling story.He_1_students
in his introduction to creative writing course at UNC Chapel Hill if they had_2_Jack Kerouac.Nobody
raised a hand._3_he asked if anyone had ever heard of Jack Kerouac.There are more blank_4_.
Naumoff began_5_the legend of the literary wild man.One student offered that he had a teacher who
was just as_6_.Naumoff asked the professor's name.The student said he didn't_7_.Naumoff then asked
this oblivious (健忘的) scholar, "Do you know my_8_?"
After a long pause, the young man replied, "No."
"I guess I've always known that many students are just_9_my course to get a requirement out of the
way, " Naumoff said."But it was   10  to see that some couldn't even go to the trouble of  11  the
name of the person teaching the course."
The other UNC professors at the  12  began sharing their own stories about the troubling state of
curiosity on  13  . All of them have noted that such ignorance isn't  14  -students have always possessed
far less knowledge than they should.But in the past,  15  tended to be a source of shame and motivation.
Students were far more likely to be  16  by not－knowing, far more eager to fill such gaps by learning.
  17  , nowadays as one reviewer once said, "It's that they don't  18  what they don't know."
In our increasingly complex world, the amount of information required to master any  19 
discipline-e.g.computers, life insurance, medicine-has expended geometrically (成几何级数增加地).
We are forced to  20  specialists, people who know more and more about less and less.Curiously, in a
world where everything is worth knowing, nothing is.

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