题组层级快练(三十九) Ⅰ.完形填空 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 unknown 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抰 gone |