2000年1月
Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
In a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved (旋转) around the earth. An ___71___ 7% did not know which revolved around ___72___ I have no doubt that ___73___ all of these people were ___74___ in school that the earth revolves around the sun; ___75___ may even have written it ___76___ a test. But they never ___77___ their incorrect mental models of planetary (行星的) ___78___ because their everyday observations didn’t support ___79___ their teachers told them: People see the sun “moving” ___80___ the sky as morning turns to night, and the earth seems stationary (静止的) ___81__ that is happening.
Students can learn the right answers ___82___ heart in class, and yet never combined them ___83__ their working models of the world. The objectively correct answer the professor accepts and the ___84___ personal understanding of the world can ___85___ side by side, each unaffected by the other.
Outside of class, the student continues to sue the ___86___ model because it has always worked well ___87___ that circumstance. Unless professors address ___88___ errors in students’ personal models of the world, students are not ___89___ to replace them with the ___90___ one.
71. A) excessive B) extra C) additional D) added
72. A) what B) which C) that D) other
73. A) virtually B) remarkably C) ideally D) preferably
74. A) learned B) suggested C) taught D) advised
75. A) those B) these C) who D) they
76. A) on B) with C) under D) for
77. A) formed B) altered C) believed D) thought
78. A) operation B) position C) motion D) location
79. A) how B) which C) that D) what
80. A) around B) across C) on D) above
81. A) since B) so C) while D) for
82. A) to B) by C) in D) with
83. A) with B) into C) to D) along
84. A) adult’s B) teacher’s C) scientist’s D) student’s
85. A) exist B) occur C) survive D) maintain
86. A) private B) individual C) personal D) own
87. A) in B) with C) on D) for
88. A) general B) natural C) similar D) specific
89. A) obliged B) likely C) probable D) partial
90. A) perfect B) better C) reasonable D) correct