英语精读试题2Exercises_about_Units_6—10.docVIP

Exercises about Units 6—10 Dictation Cloze Test: Fill in each blank of the following passage with an appropriate word: The aim of education is to stimulate impulses, encourage free thinking and boldness in thought and keep alive various interests. But the single sex (1)________ by following the simple uniform structure and(2)_______ a separate curriculum for males and females does anything but this. (3) ______ of being provided with a rich expansion of experience, students are only (4) _______ to a segment of knowledge. Such a form of education interferes (5) ________ individual freedom and entails a loss of autonomy of (6)_______. If a boy enjoys sewing, I see no reason why he should be barred from(7)________ and thread. If a girl wants to attempt baseball, she should not be punished for (8) “_______.” I need scarcely say that when I am off duty or on vacation I have little inclination to laugh: the cowhand is glad when he can forget the (9)____, the bricklayer when he can forget the mortar, and (10 )_______ usually have doors at home which don’t work or drawers which are hard to open. Confectioners like sour pickles, butchers like marzipan, and the baker prefers sausage (11)______ bread; bullfighters raise pigeons for a hobby, boxers turn pale when their children have nosebleeds: I find all this quite natural, for I never laugh(12)______ duty. I am a very solemn person, and people consider me—perhaps rightly so--- a (13)______. A question often asked is: “What are the marks of an educated man?” It is (14)_____ that one may gain no inconsiderable body of (15)______ in some special field of knowledge without at the same time acquiring those habits and(16)_____ which are the marks of an educated gentlemen. A reasonable (17)______ of learning must of course accompany an education, but, after all, that amount need not (18)_____ so very great in any one field. An education will make its mark and find its evidence in certain traits, characteristics, and (19)______ whic