2. 职称英语
  3. Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeli

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeli

游客2025-04-23  29
问题     Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling,【1】of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless【2】on God’s earth. What we should【3】at producing is men who【4】both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start【5】, and their culture will lead them as【6】as philosophy and as high as【7】. We have to remember that the valuable【8】development is self-development, and that it【9】takes place between the ages of sixteen and thirty. As to training, the most important part is given by mothers before the age of twelve.
    In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must【10】of what I will call "inert ideas" —that is to say, ideas that are merely【11】into the mind without being【12】, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. In the history of educaton. the most【13】phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a craze for genius, in a【14】generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. The reason is that they are overladen with inert ideas. Except at【15】intervals of intellectual motivation, education in the past has been radically【16】with inert ideas. That is the reason why【17】clever women, who have seen much of the world, are in middle life so much the most cultured part of the community. They have been saved from this horrible【18】of inert ideas. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity【19】greatness has been a【20】protest against inert ideas. [br]
选项 A、integral
B、classical
C、obscure
D、striking
答案 D
解析 选项D表示“惊人的；震惊的”。本题考查词义辨析。根据下文的论述内容可知，这是一种“惊人的phenomenon”，所以选择“striking”。而选项A“完整的；整体的”，选项B“古典的；经典的”，选项C“偏僻的；阴暗的”均不符合原文意思。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4049866.html
相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)