In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory__36__course about 20 years ago. The professor __37__the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans（豆）, and invited the students to _38_how many beans the jar contained. After __39__shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the __40__ answer, and went on saying, ”You have just __41__an important lesson about science. That is Never__42__ your own senses.”
Twenty years later, the __43__could guess what the professor had in mind. He __44__himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting __45__into an unknown world invisible（无形的）to the 46 ,which can be discovered only through scientific 47 . But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even 48 the invitation. She was just 49 to understand the world. And she 50 that her firsthand experience could be the 51 .The professor, however, said that it was 52 .He was taking away her only 53 for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. “I remember feeling small and 54 ,”the women says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I 55 the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.” 36．A．art 38．A．count 39．A．warning 40．A．ready 41．A．learned 42．A．lose 43．A．lecturer 44．A．described 45．A．voyage 46．A．professor 47．A．model 48．A．hear 49．A．suggesting 50．A．believed 51．A．growth 52．A．firm 53．A．task 54．A．cruel 55．A．dropped
B．history B．guess B．giving
C．science C．got through C．report C．turning away C．correct C．taught C．sharpen C．speaker C．saw
C．change C．knowledge C．spirit C．present C．proved C．faith C．wrong C．frightened C．passed
D．math D．marched into D．watch D．listening to D．difficult D．taken D．show D．woman D．served D．rush D．light D．methods D．refuse D．explained D．truth D．acceptable D．connection D．brave D．missed
37．A．searched for B．looked at
B．possible B．prepared B．trust
B．scientist B．respected B．movement B．eye B．senses B．make B．beginning B．doubted B．strength B．interesting B．proud B．started
C．pretending D．waiting
B．tool C．success
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36.C．考查名词，由第二段最后教授说的话可知，这是一节关于自然科学的课，因此填science。 37.D．考查动词词组辨析，教授走近教室，把一个盛满豆子的坛子放在讲桌上。march into “走进去”。 38.B．考查动词，根据第二段第二句中的wrong guesses可知此空填guess。教授先让同学们猜坛子里有多少豆子。
39.D．考查动词，听了（listening to）同学们的瞎猜后，教授笑了…… 40.C．考查形容词，教授公布了正确（correct）答案。
41.A．考查动词，接着，他说：“你们刚刚学习（learned）了关于自然科学的重要一课。”
42.B．考查动词，那就是：永远不要相信（trust）你们的感觉。上文教授让同学们猜一猜坛子里有多少豆子，可是大家凭感觉猜的结果并不正确，故此处用trust。
43.D．考查名词，文章第一句提到一位女士（woman）讲述了自己第一次上自然科学课的经历，故选D。
44.C．考查动词，他认为（saw）自己正把学生引入求知的旅途。
45.A．考查名词，参见上题解析。本句是比喻。教授引导学生学习自然科学，就像是开始了激动人心的旅程（voyage）。
46.B．考查名词，那些只是就像隐藏在坛子里的豆子，是肉眼（eye）看不见的。 47.D．考查名词，只有通过科学的方法（methods）才能发现未知世界的奥秘。
48.A．考查动词作者再次采用了比喻的手法。那天，教授给学生演示学习自然科学的方法，就像是发出了邀请函，请同学们和他一起踏上征程，探索未知的世界。可是，那个17岁的小姑娘，既没接受，也没听到（hear）老师的邀请。
49.B．考查动词，她只是刚开始（beginning）了解这个世界。 50.A．考查动词，她相信（believed）第一手的经验是真实可信的。 51.D．考查名词，参见上题解析。truth“事实，真理”。 52.C．考查形容词，可是，教授却说那是错误的（wrong）。
53.B．考查名词，教授拿走了她唯一的求知工具（tool），但是并未给她提供一个替代品。 54.C．考查形容词，这位女士回忆说：“记得当时我觉得自己非常渺小和恐惧（frightened）”。 55.A．考查动词，“我只做了一件我能做的事情。那天下午放弃（dropped）了这门课程，此后再也没有走近科学。”
