题目内容
17.(36)GWe 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.(37)C 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.(38)A
(39)E 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.
(40)F 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.
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.
解答 36.G.推理判断题.根据本空后的"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."可知,此处是主题句,说的是我们要么主动地学习知识,要么被动地学习,故G项符合语境.
37.C.推理判断题.本空后的"It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor."是对此处的解释说明,此处是说被动学习有一个问题,It指代的就是C项中的passive learning,故C项符合语境.
38.A.推理判断题.根据本空前的"Then the two written statements are compared."可知,此处表示结果,说的是比较之后发现最初的意思改变了,故A项符合语境.
39.E.推理判断题.根据本空后的"The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story.Then,too,most people listen imperfectly."可知,此处是说这种情况在我们日常生活中经常发生,E项中的That指代的就是这种情况,故E项符合语境.
40.F.推理判断题.根据本空后的"A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as a fact by another,who may in turn be quoted by yet another"可知,这个过程在学者和作者之间也存在,F项中的scholars and authors与writer相对应,故F项符合语境.
点评 考察学生的推理判断能力和联系上下文的能力,在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.此类的填空题一定要联系上下文,根据上下文的内容加上自己的理解,再作出正确的判断.
A. | acknowledge | B. | identify | C. | admit | D. | adjust |
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A. | To elect | B. | Electing | C. | Being elected | D. | Having elected |