Knowing is discipline-specific; it defines all those things we come to learn

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问题     Knowing is discipline-specific; it defines all those things we come to learn when we pursue the craft of our particular training.【C1】______, knowing includes the practicality of the【C2】______—what our students have to know in order to move 【C3】______ into the corporatized world that is America in the 21st century. We do "knowing" amazingly well. The【C4】______ of knowledge is truly the crowning glory of the universities of the late 20th and early 21st century.
    We peer out beyond our world to 【C5】______ objects that lie at the very 【C6】______of the universe, stars teetering on the beginning of time. We peer inward to our own gene,【C7】______ solving the puzzle of what tiny bit of chemical code 【C8】______itself as appearance, tendency, advantage and liability in the marvelous human creature. We can now【C9】______ the collected texts of humanity. I doubt a single poet, philosopher, artist or author can【C10】______ the inquiring eyes of Google, Amazon, or Yahoo. The various【C11】______ of reality, and assertion of knowing now【C12】______ around the globe in a potential conversation about which Socrates and Plato could only 【C13】______.
    Yet, in the face of all this knowledge I am【C14】______ by the image of two undergraduates who have somehow become members of the first【C15】______flight to Mars. One is an engineering major, the other a philosophy major. They step out onto the surface of the red planet and gaze at the【C16】______ landscape and up to the awesome heaven【C17】______. The philosopher looks around and asks in a hushed【C18】______, " How did we get here?" The engineer responds, "Oh, I know we got here, I just【C19】______ why we came. " They are the products of my world—so full of knowledge, so【C20】______lacking in understanding. [br] 【C20】

选项 A、utterly
B、utter
C、utterance
D、utmost

答案 A

解析 形近词辨析题。分析原句结构可知,此处应填入一个副词来修饰形容词lacking,所以[A]utterly“完全地,十足地”是答案。[B]utter作动词,表示“发出(声音)”;作形容词,表示“完全的,绝对的”。[C]utterance为名词,表示“话语,言语”。[D]utmost作形容词,表示“极度的,最大的”;作名词,表示“极限,最大可能”。
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