Day 9-2021高考英语完形填空真题精读材料

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Day9 高考英语完形填空真题篇章精读 Could firsthand experience be the truth？ In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life，a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory science course about 20 years ago． The professor marched into the lecture hall，placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans(豆)，and invited the students to guess how many beans the jar contained．After listening to shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin，dry smile，announced the correct answer, and went on saying，“You have just learned an important lesson about science．That is：Never trust your own senses”. Twenty years later，the woman could guess what the professor had in mind．He saw himself，perhaps，as inviting his students to start an exciting voyage into all unknown world invisible (无形的) to the eye，which can be discovered only through scientific methods．But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even hear the invitation．She was just beginning to understand the world．And she believed that her firsthand experience could be the truth．The professor, however，said that it was wrong . He was taking away her only tool for knowing and was providing her with no substitute(替代). “I remember feeling small and frightened，” the woman says，“and I did the only thing I could do．I dropped the course that afternoon，and I haven’t gone near science since．” 高考英语完形填空真题篇章精读Accept life as it is I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. However .He did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy .but rather when he was weak and ill. My father was once a strong man who loved being active ,but a terrible illness took all that away. Now he can no longer walk， and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is difficult. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters ,we started talking about life, and I told them about one of my beliefs .I said that we must always gi