单项选择题
| Aristotle was one of those who could
found a civilization, and while he thought of education as both a social value
and an end in itself, he ascribed its chief importance (21)
what might be considered a third basic concept of education: to train
the mind to think, (22) what it is thinking about. The key is
not (23) it knows but how it (24) any new
fact or argument. "An educated man," Aristotle wrote in On the Parts of Animals,
"should be able to (25) a fair offhand judgment as to the
goodness or badness of the method used by a professor in his exposition. To
be (26) is in fact to be able to do this." The Aristotle view of education as a (27) has become the conventionally worthy answer today (28) college presidents and other academic leaders are asked what an education should be. An educated man, says Harvard President Bok, (29) a deep breath, must have a "curiosity in (30) the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, (31) for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decision he can in the fact of uncertainty and doubt." This is an approach that appears to (32) more importance to the process of learning (33) to the substance of what is learned. The very old notion of the generalist who could comprehend all subjects has (34) been an impossibility. To make matters (35) more difficult, the fields of knowledge keep changing. |
单项选择题 Once the novelty of watching TV and videos all day has ______, there is nothing to do.
单项选择题 Studies have shown that smoking is a factor for gastric cancer either by itself, or more ______ when in combination with another factor such as coal dust exposure or the consumption of alcohol.
单项选择题 It can cause a hip or wrist ______ from a simple fall, and it decreases life expectancy because it is the leading cause of accidental death in people aged forty-five to seventy-four.