Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

【1】 We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning. We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers. 【2】 It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor.

Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. 【3】

【4】 The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.

【5】 A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as a fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.

A. Typically, the original message has changed.

B. Finally everybody gets the meaning.

C. Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem.

D. Knowledge is passed down from generation to generation.

E. That’s what happens in daily life.

F. This process is also found among scholars and authors.

G. We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】C

【3】A

【4】E

【5】F

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了被动获得知识所存在的一个严重的问题——被告知的可能是谣言。并用现实生活中简单的事例加以说明。

【1】G 根据后几句We achieve it actively by……，We achieve knowledge passively by……，可知选项G 是最合适的，起到主题句的作用。

【2】C 根据前后句的意思，尤其是后一句It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor.可知它让我们接受我们被告知的东西哪怕是谣言，故属于被动学习，答案为C。

【3】A 根据本段的意思，介绍了谣言这个游戏的玩法，可知原始的信息和最后听来的信息是不一样的，故答案为A。

【4】E 本空属于主题句。本段主要是细说生活中这种谣言的形成过程，故选项E符合本段大意。

【5】F 根据后一句A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as a fact by another可找到关键词writer，就是F选项中的author，故答案为F。