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押江苏卷第41-55题
完形填空夹叙夹议
Passage 1
In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory 41 course about 20 years ago.
The professor 42 the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans(豆), and invited the students to 43 how many beans the jar contained. After 44 shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the correct answer, and went on saying,” You have just learned an important lesson about science. That is: Never trust your own senses.”
Twenty years later, the 45 could guess what the professor had in mind. He 46 himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting 47 into an unknown world Invisible(无形的)to the eye, which can be discovered only through scientific methods. But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even 48 the invitation. She was just 49 to understand the world. And she 50 that her firsthand experience could be the 51 .The professor, however, said that it was 52 . he was taking away her only 53 for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. “I remember feeling small and 54 ,” the women says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I 55 the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”
41. A. art
B. history
C. science
D. math
42. A. searched for
B. looked at
C. got through
D. marched into
43. A. count
B. guess
C. report
D. watch
44. A. warning
B. giving
C. turning away
D. listening to
45. A. lecturer
B. scientist
C. speaker
D. woman
46. A. described
B. respected
C. saw
D. served
47. A. voyage
B. movement
C. change
D. rush
48. A. hear
B. make
C. present
D. refuse
49. A. suggesting
B. beginning
C. pretending
D. waiting
50. A. believed
B. doubted
C. proved
D. explained
51. A. growth
B. strength
C. faith
D. truth
52. A. firm
B. interesting
C. wrong
D. acceptable
53. A. task
B. tool
C. success
D. connection
54. A. cruel