Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane
feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely
well-informed man is the most useless {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}}
{{/U}}on God's earth. What we should {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}at
producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special
direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start {{U}}
{{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and their culture will lead them as {{U}}
{{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}as philosophy and as high as art. We have to
remember that the valuable {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}}
{{/U}}development is self-development, and that it {{U}} {{U}} 6
{{/U}} {{/U}}takes place between the ages of sixteen and thirty. As to
training, the most important part is given by mothers before the age of
twelve. In training a child to activity of thought, above all
things we must beware of what I will call "inert ideas"-that is to say, ideas
that are merely {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}into the mind without
being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. In the history of
education, the most {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}phenomenon is
that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a craze for genius,
in a {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}generation exhibit merely
pedantry and routine. The reason is that they are overladen with inert ideas.
Except at {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}intervals of intellectual
motivation, education in the past has been radically {{U}} {{U}}
11 {{/U}} {{/U}}with inert ideas. That is the reason why {{U}}
{{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}clever women, who have seen much of the world,
are in middle life so much the most cultured part of the community. They have
been saved from this horrible {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}of
inert ideas. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity
{{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}greatness has been a {{U}}
{{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}protest against inert ideas.
【答案解析】[解析] aim at doing“目的在于；旨在”。本题考查词组搭配。根据原文第一句“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling”形成一种呼应，进一步论证学习文化的目的。而选项point at/ to“指向，表明”，clutch“抓住，攫住，掌握”，clutch at“企图抓住”；snap out of“迅速从……中恢复过来”；snap up“抢购，抢先弄到手”均不符合题意。
【答案解析】[解析] mostly“大部分；主要地”。根据本句中的“between the age of sixteen and thirty”以及第三段的“in middle life so much the most...”，可见这种情况“大多数”发生在16岁到30岁之间。而random“随便地，任意地”，seldom“很少，不常”，regularly“定期地，有规则地”均不符合题意。
【答案解析】[解析] succeeding“后继的；随后的”。根据文章一致性原则，“succeeding generation”与上文提到的“at one epoch”形成呼应。而preceding“优先的，在先的，先前的”，accompanying“随同的”，emerging“出现的；显露的”均不符合题意。