单选题
Without exposure to the cultural, intellectual, and moral traditions that are our heritage, we are excluded from a common world that
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generations. On the one hand, such exclusion tends to
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us to recreate everything, a needless and largely impossible task; On the other hand, it tends to make us
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, to suggest that we are indeed the creators of the world and of all good ideas
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in fact we are only a fragment of the history of man.
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entirely to ourselves, we could make only the slimmest contributions to wisdom.
While the humanities overlap the fine and liberal arts, they are also related of necessity to the sciences and to technology. Some of the
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of the humanities raise questions about what ends are worthy to be
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, what ideals deserve
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. But since it is futile to know what is worth doing without having any idea of how to get things done, effective study in the humanities requires respect for and attainment of factual knowledge and technological skill.
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, it is pointless to know how to get things done without having any idea what is worth doing, so that informed study in applied science demands
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in the humanities.
【答案解析】[解析] 各选项的意思是：Provided如果，假如，只有……才；Left把……留下；Reserved储备，保存，预定；Kept持有，保有。keep sth. to oneself意为“不让他人分享，保密”。文章要表达的意思是如果完全依靠我们自己，我们对智慧只能做出最微小的贡献。所以正确答案是D。