Question

【题目】从下面方框中选择恰当的词或短语并用其正确形式填入短文中，使短文通顺正确（每个词或短语只用一次）。

everything, learn, important, work out, before, invent, thousands of, outside, make a living, even

Many people go to school for education. They learn languages, history, math and some other subjects. Others go to school to learn skills to 【1】. School education is very important and useful. Yet, no one can learn 【2】 from school. Even a very good teacher can't teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher's job is to show his students how to 【3】. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, many things will be learned 【4】 school by the students themselves.

It is always 【5】 to know how to study by students themselves than to remember some formulas (公式). It is very easy to learn a formula in math, but it is hard to use a formula in 【6】 a math problem. Great scientists 【7】 us didn't get everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. Edison didn't 【8】finish primary school, but he was so successful. He 【9】so many things for human beings.

They were successful because they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school. They would ask many questions as they read. They did 【10】 experiments (实验). They worked hard all their lives and never wasted time. The most important thing was that they knew how to use their brain.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】make a living

【2】everything

【3】learn

【4】outside

【5】more important

【6】working out

【7】before

【8】even

【9】invented

【10】thousands of

【解析】

文章大意：本文通过列举爱迪生取得成功的例子，来说明学校教育的真正目的应该是教会学生们学习的方法，也就是教会他们怎么去学习，而不是教给他们公式，要让学生们在实际中能够运用所学的知识。

【1】

句意：其他人上学是为了学习谋生的技能。

根据空前动词不定式符号to可知，此空应填动词原形，结合句意和所给单词提示可知，此空是“谋生”的意思，故答案为make a living。

【2】

句意：然而，没有人能从学校学到一切。

根据下句“Even a very good teacher can't teach his students everything they want to know.”即使再好的老师也不能教给学生们他们想知道的所有知识。可以推测上句是“没有人能从学校学习所有的东西”。结合句意和所给单词提示可知，故答案为everything。

【3】

句意：老师的工作是展示给学生们怎么去学习。

根据下句“He teaches them how to read and how to think.”可知老师是要教给学生们如何阅读和思考的。所以推测上句“老师的工作是展示给学生们怎么去学习。“how to learn”意为”怎么学习”。结合句意和所给单词提示可知，故答案为learn。

【4】

句意：所以，很多东西都是学生自己在校外学习的。

根据so因此，可知句意“因此许多事情要靠学生们在校外自己学习”。结合句意和所给单词提示可知，故答案为outside。

【5】

句意：学生们如何自己独立学习比记公式要重要的多。

根据上文by the students themselves，学生们自己。结合句意和所给单词提示可知，此空是“要重要的多”。故答案为more important。

【6】

句意：在数学中学习一个公式是很容易的，但是在解决一个数学问题时却很难使用公式。

根据空前介词in可知，此空应填名词、代词或动名词，结合句意和所给单词提示可知，此空是“解决”的意思，故答案为working out。

【7】

句意：在我们之前的伟大科学家并不是从学校得到一切。

根据下文提到的Edison可知此处是出现在我们之前的伟大科学家们。结合句意和所给单词提示可知，此空是“在……之前”的意思，故答案为before。

【8】

句意：爱迪生甚至没有读完小学，但他很成功。

根据空后动词finish可知。此空应填副词，结合句意和所给单词提示可知，此空是“甚至”的意思，故答案为even。

【9】

句意：他为人类发明了很多东西。

根据句子结构可知，此句缺少谓语动词，结合句意和所给单词提示可知，此空是“发明”的意思，故答案为invented。

【10】

句意：他们做了数千个实验。

根据空后名词experiments，此空应填修饰词，结合句意和所给单词提示可知，此空是“数千”的意思，故答案为thousands of。