A. additional B. ideally C. altered D. personal E. likely F. excessive G. virtually H. combined I. exceed J. errors K. preferably L. exist M. motion N. operation O. while In a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved around the earth. An 17% did not know which revolved around which. I have no doubt that 2 all of these people were taught in school that the earth revolves around the sun; they may even have written it on a test. But they never 3 their incorrect mental models of planetary 4 because their everyday observations didn't support what their teachers told them: People see the sun moving across the sky as morning turns to night, and the earth seems stationary 5 that is happening. Students can learn the right answers by heart in class, and yet never 6 them with their working models of the world. The objectively correct answer the professor accepts and the student's personal understanding of the world can 7 side by side, each unaffected by the other. Outside of class, the student continues to use the 8 model because it has always worked well in that circumstance. Unless professors address specific 9 in students' personal models of the world, students are not 10 to replace them with the correct ones.
【答案解析】解析:空格位于be后面,推断空格处应填入形容词或分词。空格后跟了不定式符号to,词库中的likely后可接不定式,be not likely to do sth.意为“不太可能做某事”。此外,上文提到学生们无论是在课堂还是课外用的都是自己对世界运行的理解,所以可想而知如果没有人指出其中的错误,他们是不可能用正确的理解替换掉错误的理解的,填入likely符合上下文语境。