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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    Training is intended primarily for the service of society; education is primarily for the individual. Society needs doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers to perform specific tasks necessary to its operation, just as it needs carpenters and plumbers and stenographers(速记员). (41) ______.  And these needs, our training centers—the professional and trade schools, fill. But although education is for the improvement of the individual, it also serves society by providing a leavening of men of understanding, of perception, and wisdom. (42)______. They serve society by examining its function, appraising its needs, and criticizing its direction. They may be earning their livings by practicing one of the professions, or in pursuing a trade, or by engaging in business enterprise. They may be rich or poor. They may occupy positions of power and prestige, or they may be engaged in some humble employment. Without them, however, society either disintegrates or else becomes an anthill.
    (43)______. In the one, the recruit is training to become a professional baseball player who will make a living and serve society by playing baseball; in the other, he is training only to improve his own body and musculature. The training at the baseball camp is all relevant. The recruit may spend hours practicing how to slide into second base, not because it is a particularly useful form of calisthenics(柔软体操) but because it is relevant to the game. The exercise would stop if the rules were changed so that sliding to a base was made illegal. Similarly, the candidate for the pitching staff spends a lot of time throwing a baseball, not because it will improve his physique—it may have quite the opposite effect, but because pitching is to be his principal function on the team. At the gym, exercises have no such relevance. (44)______.
    (45)______. What is taught at law school is the present law of the land, not the Napoleonic Code or even the archaic laws that have been scratched from the statute books. And at medical school, too, it is modern medical practice that is taught, which is relevant to conditions today. And the plumber(水管工人) and the carpenter and the electrician and the mason(泥瓦匠) learn only what is relevant to the practice of their respective trades in this day with the tools and materials that are presently available and that conform to the building code.

A. Education refers to the knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
B. They are our intellectual leaders, the critics of our culture, the defenders of our free traditions, the instigators of our progress.
C. The intention is to strengthen the body in general, and when the members sit down on the floor with their legs outstretched and practice touching their fingers to their toes, it is not because they hope to become galley slaves, perhaps the only occupation where that particular exercise would be relevant.
D. The difference between the two types of study is like the difference between the discipline and exercise in a professional baseball training camp and that of a gym.
E. Training supplies the immediate and specific needs of society so that the work of the world may continue.
F. In general, relevancy is a facet of training rather than of education.
G. Training is to make proficient with specialized instruction and practice.

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答案B
解析 空白前提到尽管教育是为了对个人的提高，但它同样为社会提供能理解、观察和充满智慧的有影响人物。B继续提到这些人是智慧的领袖、文化的批评家、自由传统的保卫者，前进的推动者。
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