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In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the
first meeting of an introductory
1 course about 20 years ago.
The professor
2 the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited
the students to
3 how many beans the jar contained. After
4 shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor
smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the
5 answer, and went on saying, "You have just
6 an important
lesson about science. That is: Never
7 your own senses."
Twenty years later, the
8 could guess what the professor had in mind. He
9 himself, perhaps, as
inviting his students to start an exciting
10 into an un- known world invisible (无形的) to the
11 , which can
be discovered only through scientific
12 . But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even
13 the
invitation She was just
14 to understand the world. And she
15 that her firsthand experience could be the
16 . The professor, however, said that it was
17 . He was taking away her only
18 for knowing and was
providing her with no substitute (替代) "I remember feeling small and
19 ." the woman says, "and I did the
only thing I could do. I
20 the course that afternoon, and I haven't gone near science since."
( )1. A. art ( )2. A. searched for ( )3. A. count ( )4. A. warning ( )5. A. ready ( )6. A. learned ( )7. A. lose ( )8. A. lecturer ( )9. A. described ( )10. A. voyage ( )11. A. professor ( )12. A. model ( )13. A. hear ( )14. A. suggesting ( )15. A. believed ( )16. A. growth ( )17. A. firm ( )18. A. ask ( )19. A. cruel ( )20. A. dropped |
B. history B. looked at B. guess B. giving B. possible B. prepared B. trust B. scientist B. respected B. movement B. eye B. senses B. make B. beginning B. doubted B. strength B. interesting B. tool B. proud B. started |
C. science C. got through C. report C. turning away C. correct C. taught C. sharpen C. speaker C. saw C. change C. knowledge C. spirit C. present C. pretending C. proved C. faith C. wrong C. success C. frightened C. passed |
D. math D. marched into D. watch D. listening to D. difficult D. taken D. show D. woman D. served D. rush D. light D. methods D. refuse D. waiting D. explained D. truth D. acceptable D. connection D. brave D. missed |