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  3. In a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved around the earth. An(1)_____ 7% did not

In a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved around the earth. An(1)_____ 7% did not

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问题     In a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved around the earth. An(1)_____ 7% did not know which revolved around(2)______. I have no doubt that(3)_____ all of these people were(4)_____ in school that the earth revolves around the sun; (5)_____ may even have written it(6)_____ a test. But they never(7)_____ their incorrect mental models of planetary(8)_____ because their everyday observations didn’t support(9)_____ their teachers told them: People see the sun moving (10)_____ the sky as morning turns to night, and the earth seems stationary(11)_____ that is happening.
    Students can learn the right answers(12)_____ heart in class, and yet never combined them (13)_____ their working models of the world. The objectively correct answer the professor accepts and the(14)_____ personal understanding of the world can(15)_____ side by side, each unaffected by the other.
    Outside of class, the student continues to use the(16)_____ model because it has always worked well(17)_____ that circumstance. Unless professors address(18)_____ errors in students’ personal models of the world, students are not(19)_____ to replace them with the(20)_____ one.
(19)
选项 A、obliged
B、likely
C、probable
D、partial
答案B
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”。
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