As most schools are set up today, learning is compulsory. It is an ought, ev

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问题     As most schools are set up today, learning is compulsory. It is an ought, even worse, a must,【C1】______ by regular hours and rigid discipline. And the young sneer at the oughts and 【C2】______ the musts with all their energy. The feeling often lasts【C3】______ a lifetime. For too many of us, learning appears to be a【C4】______ of our own will to external direction.
    Much unhappiness has been 【C5】______by those people who have never recognized that it is【C6】______ necessary to make themselves into whole and【C7】______ personalities as to keep themselves clean, healthy and financially solvent.【C8】______ of the mind and spirit is not a quality conferred by nature, or by God. Man has the capacity to 【C9】______it; but to achieve it depends on his own【C10】______.
    During our earthly life, the body gradually dies; even the emotions become 【C11】______. But the mind in most of us continues to live, and even grows more 【C12】______ and active, enjoys itself more, works and plays with more expansion and【C13】______.
    Many people have played themselves to death, or eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody has ever【C14】______ himself to death. The chief danger 【C15】______us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity—【C16】______ their way in like wind through 【C17】______, seeping into the cellar like swamp water. Many who avoid learning, or abandon it, find that life is 【C18】______dry. They spend 30 years in chair looking glumly out at the sand and the ocean. But that is not how to live.
    No learner has ever run【C19】______ of subjects to explore. The pleasures of learning are indeed pleasures. You can live longest and best and most【C20】______ by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning. [br] 【C11】

选项 A、duller
B、dumber
C、more distinct
D、more desirable

答案 A

解析 形容词辨析题。[A]duller“更加迟钝的”;[B]dumber“更加沉默的”;[C]more distinct“更加清楚的”;[D]more desirable“更值得拥有的”。由常识可知,人老后情感会变得更加迟钝,所以[A]duller是答案。
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