______ 2010 Shanghai World Expo is a perfect opportunity to get ______ panoramic (全景的) view of the whole world without traveling thousands of miles. A. /; the B. The; the C. The; a D. /; a 答案:C3、 We can achieve knowledge
either actively or passively(被动地).We achieve it
actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.
We achieve knowledge
passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place
in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers
or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on
it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.
Unfortunately,
passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are
told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言).
Did you ever play the
game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person
whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers
it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The
last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then
the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has
changed.
That’s what happens in daily life. The
simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story.
Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own
creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping(打上标记)it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they
know.
This process is also
found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be
re-stated as a fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and
this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on
which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation
he placed upon those facts.
1. According to the passage,
passive learning may occur in .
A. doing a medical
experiment
B. solving a math problem
C. visiting an
exhibition
D. doing scientific reasoning
2. The underlined word“it”in
Paragraph 2 refers to .
A. active
learning B.
knowledge C.
communication D. passive
learning
3. The author mentions the game
Rumor to show that______.
A. a message may be
changed when being passed on
B. a message should
be delivered in different ways
C. people may have
problems with their sense of hearing
D. people tend not to
believe in what they know as rumor
4. What can we infer from the
passage?
A. Active learning is
less important.
B. Passive learning may not be reliable.
C. Active learning
occurs more frequently. D. Passive learning is not
found among scholars.