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2014届高三英语二轮专题复习测试题：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 subsitute (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 havent gone near science since.” 本文通过一节科学课，向人们显示了教育是如何帮助人们成功的，并且这堂课向学生显示了人们不能凭感觉做事，对于一些无形的东西，只能通过科学方法才能发现。 1．A.art B．history C．science D．math 答案：C。从第二段第6空后可知，此处应填science。science course科学课。 2．A.searched for B．looked at C．got through D．marched into 答案：D。教授走进演讲大厅。search for寻找；look at看； get through完成，打通；march into走进。根据句意D项正确。 3．A.count B．guess C．report D．watch 答案：B。教授让学生们猜猜缸里有多少豆子。count数；guess猜；report报告；watch看，观看，因为豆子装在缸里，同学们只有猜一下有多少。并且4空后出现了guess一词。 4．A.warning B．giving C．turning away D．listening to 答案：D。根据上下文意思可知，同学们喊出答案，教授听到他们错误的猜测，而笑了。 5．A.ready B．possible C．correct D．difficult 答案：C。因同学们的答案错误，所以教授给出正确答案，correct与wrong相对。 6．A.learned B．prepared C．taught D．taken 答