试题题干
Gap Filling
The following passage is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box (there are more words than necessary).
what /grow /shame /that /value /means /suit /whether /do /advance / produce / which /take
Education is not an end, but a _______ to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the aim of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life. Life is varied; so is education. As soon as we realize the fact. We will understand that it is very important to choose a proper system of education.
In some countries with _______ industries they have free education for all. Under this system, people, no matter _______ they are rich or poor, clever
or foolish, have a chance to be educated at universities or colleges. They have for some time thought, by free education for all, they can solve all the problem of a society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough. We find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. As a result of their degrees, they refuse to do what they think is ”low” work. In fact, to work with one's hands is thought to be dirty and _______ in such countries.
But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely, uneducated farmer is as important as _______ of a professor. We can live without education, but we should die if none of us _______ crops. If no one cleaned our house and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns. If there were no service people, because everyone was ashamed to do such work, the professors would have to waste much of their time _______ housework.
On the other hand, if all the farmers were completely uneducated, their _______ would remain low. As the population grows larger and larger in the modern world, we would die if we did not have enough food.
In fact, when we say all of us must be educated to fit ourselves for life, it means that all must be educated: first, to realize that everyone can do whatever job is _______ to his brain and ability; secondly, to understand that jobs are necessary to society and that it is bad to be ashamed of one’s own work or to look down upon someone else's; thirdly to master all the necessary know—how to do one's job well. Only such education can be called _______ to society.