The universities are schools of education and researchbut the main reason for their existence is not in the knowledge taught to thestudents or in the opportunities for the economic or social ___50___ resultingfrom the research findings.
The true function of a university is that it keeps the___51___ between knowledge and the real life. It unites the students withordinary life in a ___52___ way. The university passes on information, but it___53___ the information imaginatively. Imagination is the driving force forthe society’s future development. Students’ imagination is the very___54___ every university should protect and encourage. A university which___55___ to do so has no reason for existence. With imagination, knowledge isnot only knowledge: it includes all possibilities. It’s no longer a ___56___ onstudents’ memory. It’s food for thought and ___57___ for creative inventions.
Imagination is not ___58___ knowledge. Instead, it isa way leading to more knowledge. It works by thoroughly studying the currentknowledge and then exploring every possibility about the knowledge. In theexploration, new knowledge ___59___. Imagination enables men to construct a newvision of the world and it adds ___60___ to life through endless possibilities.Imaginative people are restless all along.
Youth is imaginative and if the university can helppreserve this precious wealth, the power of imagination can ___61___ change theworld. Besides, it should also be made clear that imagination won’t be mosteffective without necessary experience. The problem of the current world isthat those who are imaginative have only little experience ___62___ those whoare experienced have weak imaginations. The ___63___ left for the universitiesis to hold together these two factors for the whole human race to ___64___greater development and happiness.
1. A.problem B.development C.life D.inquiry
2. A.connection B.attraction C.difference D.tradition
3. A.technical B.difficult C.creative D.basic
4. A.supposes B.conveys C.expects D.weighs
5. A.spirit B.goods C.message D.theory
6. A.tries B.pretends C.fails D.means
7. A.burden B.treasure C.schedule D.science
8. A.result B.material C.cost D.figure
9. A.superior to B.familiar with C.separate from D.strict with
10. A.takes shape B.steps in C.sets off D.speeds up
11. A.proof B.excitement C.greed D.seed
12. A.temporarily B.carefully C.reluctantly D.finally
13. A.because B.unless C.while D.until
14. A.sympathy B.solution C.condition D.purpose
15. A.require B.fix C.imagine D.achieve