06.12老六级
　　 The most important starting point for improving the
　　 understanding of science is undoubtedly an adequate
　　 scientific education at school. Public attitude towards
　　 science owe much the way science is taught in these S1________
　　 institutions. Today, school is what most people come into S2________
　　 contact with a formal instruction and explanation of science
　　 for the first time, at least in a systematic way. It is at this
　　 point which the foundations are laid for an interest in science. S3________
　　 what is taught (and how) in this first encounter will largely
　　 determine an individual’s view of the subject in adult life.
　　 Understanding the original of the negative attitudes S4________
　　 towards science may help us to modify them. Most education
　　 system neglect exploration, understanding and reflection. S5________
　　 Teachers in schools tend to present science as a collection of
　　 facts, often by more detail than necessary. As a result, S6________
　　 children memorize processes such as mathematical formulas
　　 or the periodic table, only to forget it shortly afterwards. The S7________
　　 task of learning facts and concepts, one at a time, makes
　　 learning laborious, boring and efficient. Such a purely S8________
　　 empirical approach, which consists of observation and
　　 description, is also, in a sense, unscientific or incomplete.
　　 There is therefore a need for resources and methods of
　　 teaching that facilitates a deep understanding of science in S9________
　　 an enjoyable way. Science should not only be ‘fun’ in the
　　 same way as playing a video game, but ‘hard fun’----a deep
　　 feeling of connection made possibly only by imaginative S10________
　　 engagement.
　　06年12月新六级   
　　The National Endowment for the Arts recently released   
　　the results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which described   
　　the movement of the American public away from books and   
　　literature and toward television and electronic media.   
　　According to the survey, “reading is on the decline on every S1________   
　　region, within every ethnic group, and at every educational level.”   
　　The day the NEA report released, the U.S. House, in a tie S2________   
　　vote, upheld the government’s right to obtain bookstore and   
　　library records under a provision of the USA Patriot Act. The   
　　House proposal would have barred the federal government   
　　from demand library records, reading lists, book customer S3________   
　　lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations.   
　　These two events are completely unrelated to, yet they S4________   
　　echo each other in the message they send about the place of   
　　books and reading in American culture. At the heart   
　　of the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic S5________   
　　system depends on leaders who can think critically, analyze   
　　texts and writing clearly. All of these are skills promoted by S6________   
　　reading and discussing books and literature. At the same time,   
　　through a provision of the Patriot Act, the leaders of our   
　　country are unconsciously sending the message that reading   
　　may be connected to desirable activities that might S7________   
　　undermine our system of government rather than helping   
　　democracy flourish.   
　　Our culture’s decline in reading begin well before the S8________   
　　existence of the Patriot Act. During the 1980s’ culture wars,   
　　school systems across the country pulled some books from   
　　library shelves because its content was deemed by parents S9________   
　　and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schools   
　　across the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and S10________   
　　is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of the   
　　American public.  
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