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rch of reality. Science cannot really explain electricity, magnetism, and gravitation; their effects can be measured and predicted, but of their mature no more is known to the modem scientist than to Thales who first speculated on the electrification of amber. Most contemporary physicists reject the notion that man can ever discover what these mysterious forces "really" are. "Electricity," Bertrand Russell says, "is not a thing, like St. Paul's Cathedral: it is a way in which things behave. When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, we have told all there is to tell." Until recently scientists would have disapproved of such an idea. Aristotle, for example, whose natural science dominated Western thought for two thousand years, believed that man could arrive at an understanding of reality by reasoning from self-evident principles. He felt, for example, that it is a self-evident principle that everything in the universe has its proper place, hence one can deduce that objects fall to the ground because that's where they belong, and smoke goes up because that's where it belongs. The goal of Aristotelian science was to explain why things happen. Modem science was born when Galileo began trying to explain how things happen and thus originated the method of controlled experiment which now forms the basis of scientific investigation.

The aim of controlled scientific experiments is ______.

A．to explain why things happen

B．to explain how things happen

C．to describe self-evident principles

D．to support Aristotelian science

selves. Schools, books and teachers are help, but you have to do the work. Only by persevering, industrious efforts can you become well educated

There are two objects in education: first, to develop yourself; second, to gain knowledge. To develop yourself is to strengthen and cultivate your whole being: to improve your memory and reasoning powers; to learn to think and judge correctly; in short, to have yourmind grow, so that you will be better able to do your work in life.

You develop yourself by acquiring an education, thinking about, and using it, for ducation is the food to make your mind grow. To gain knowledge is to leam tacts and methods which will be of use to you in life

There are four sources from which to derive education: from your own observation, from your experience, from the conversation of others, and from study. You can leam much without books and teachers

When you visit a manufactory, examine the machinery; try to leam how the power applied at one point moves levers and wheel until it reaches the part that dose the work Wherever work is going on, be sure to learm how it is done. Study into causes and result. The steam engine came from the boy Watt's watching a boiling teakettle, and thinking about it.

Listen to conversation, you can leam something useful from every one. Every one can teach the best-educated man something. Ask people to tell you of what they have seen and known. Never be ashamed to ask about what you do not understand. A leaned man was asked how he had acquired such a vast amount of knowledge. "By asking information of every one,he answered.

To educate yourself, you must read, study, observer, reflect, reason, and think. Keep your eyes open, and your mind at work.

1. The most appropriate title for this passage would be ().

A、Measures of Developing Oneself

B、Objects in Education

C、Self-education

D、spend time and try hard

2.According to the passage, to develop oneself is all of the following except().

A、having a better memory

B、enhance your reasoning abilities

C、improving the ability to judge correctly

D、acquiring an education

3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true().

A、To improve yourself is to have your mind grow.

B、You can become well educated only by observing

C、You can only get information through books and teachers

4.It can be inferred from the passage that().

A、formal education is less important than self-education

B、thinking is much more important than knowledge in developing yourself

C、schools and teachers are unnecessary in developing yourself

D、in order to be well educated, you have to spend time and try hard

5.According to the author, a mature mind will enable you to ().

A、learn without books and teachers

B、gain knowledge

C、acquire an education

D、work better in your life

A．At the man's dormitory.

B．At the hall.

C．At one classroom.

D．At the library.

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B.antithesis

C.metaphor

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