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Over dinner a few weeks ago,the novelist Lawrence Naumoff told a troubling story.He ________ students in his introduction to creative writing course at UNC Chapel Hill if they had ________ Jack Kerouac.Nobody raised a hand. ________ he asked if anyone had ever heard of Jack Kerouac.There are more blank________.

Naumoff began ________ the legend of the literary wild man.One student offered that he had a teacher who was just as ________.Naumoff asked the professor’s name.The student said ________ didn’t know.Naumoff then asked this oblivious(健忘的) scholar,“Do you know my ________?”

After a long pause,the young man replied,“No.”

“I guess I’ve always known that many students are just ________ my course to get a requirement out of the way,” Naumoff said.“But it was ________ to see that some even couldn’t go to the trouble of ________ the name of the person teaching the course.”

The other UNC professors at the ________ began sharing their own stories about the troubling state of curiosity on ________ .All of them have noted that such ignorance isn’t

________—students have always possessed far less knowledge than they should.But in the past, ________ tended to be a source of shame and motivation.Students were far more likely to be ________ by not-knowing,far more eager to fill such gaps by learning. _______,nowadays as one reviewer once said,“It’s that they don’t ________ what they don’t know.”

In our increasingly complex world,the amount of information required to master any ________ discipline—e.g.computers,life insurance,medicine—has expanded geometrically(几何学上).We are forced to ________ specialists,people who know more and more about less and less.Curiously,in a world where everything is worth knowing,nothing is.

1.A.helped                B.greeted       C.taught            D.asked

2.A.read                  B.recognized    C.visited           D.wrote

3.A.But                   B.Or            C.Then              D.So

4.A.puzzles               B.expressions   C.smiles            D.feelings

5.A.describing            B.drawing       C.showing           D.painting

6.A.ugly                  B.handsome      C.crazy             D.angry

7.A.he                    B.she           C.they              D.we

8.A.story                 B.name          C.address           D.work

9.A.getting               B.putting       C.taking            D.making

10.A.excited              B.interested    C.pleased           D.disappointed

11.A.finding out          B.looking for   C.putting up        D.pointing to

12.A.class                B.dinner        C.room              D.house

13.A.train                B.bus           C.campus            D.literature

14.A.old                  B.short         C.long              D.new

15.A.ignorance            B.curiosity     C.knowledge         D.gaps

16.A.troubled             B.moved         C.touched           D.respected

17.A.Therefore            B.Otherwise     C.However           D.Anyway

18.A.go through           B.take in       C.meet with         D.care about

19.A.common               B.simple        C.particular        D.easy

20.A.act                  B.become        C.call              D.want