单选题
In a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved around the earth. An
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7% did not know which revolved around
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. I have no doubt that
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all of these people were
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in school that the earth revolves around the sun;
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may even have written it
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a test. But they never
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their incorrect mental models of planetary
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because their everyday observations didn"t support
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their teachers told them: People see the sun moving
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the sky as morning tunas to night, and the earth seems stationary
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that is happening.
Students can learn the right answers
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heart in class, and yet never combined them
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their working models of the world. The objectively correct answer the professor accepts and the
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personal understanding of the world can
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side by side, each unaffected by the other.
Outside of class, the student continues to use the
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model because it has always worked well
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that circumstance. Unless professors address
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errors in students" personal models of the world, students are not
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to replace them with the
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one.
【答案解析】[解析] 这里填入谓语动词。空格后的side by side与each unaffected by the other提示“教授认可的客观上正确的答案”和“学生个人对于世界的理解”二者是可以并存的，exist“存在”符合句意。exceed“超越”；survive“生存”；suppose“猜想”。
【答案解析】[解析] 此处讲到，除非教授指出具体的错误，否则学生是不会改变他们个人对世界的错误理解。be not likely to表示“不可能做某事”，符合句意，故选B。be probable to也表示“可能”，但其主语通常是it。be obliged to do sth.“被迫做某事”；be partial to后接sth.或sb.指“偏爱某人或某物”。