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Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Children are natural-born scientists. They have ___ 36____minds, and they aren't afraid to admit they don't know something. Most of them,___37____, lose this as they get older. They become self-conscious and don't want to appear stupid. Instead of finding things out for themselves they make ___38____thatoften turn out to be wrong.
So it's not a case of getting kids interested in science. You just have to avoid killing the ___ 39____forlearning that they were born with. It's no coincidence that kids start deserting science once it becomes formalised. Children naturally have a blurred approach to ___40____knowledge. They see learning about science or biology or cooking as all part of the same act it's all learning. It's only because of the practicalities of education that you have to start breaking down the curriculum into specialist subjects. You need to have specialist teachers who ___ 41____what they know. Thus once they enter school, children begin to define subjects and erect boundaries that needn't otherwise exist.
Dividing subjects into science, maths, English, etc. is something we do for ___ 42____. In the end it's all learning, but many children today ___43____themselves from a scientific education. They think science is for scientists, not for them.
Of course we need to specialize ___44____. Each of us has only so much time on Earth, so we can't study everything. At 5 years old, our field of knowledge and 45is broad, covering anything from learning to walk to learning, to count. Gradually it narrows down so that by the time we are ___45____, it might be one tiny little corner within science.
thin science.
A. accidentally
B. acquiring
C. assumptions
D.convenience
E.eventually
F. exclude
G. exertion
H. exploration
I.formulas
J. ignite
K. impart
L. inquiring
M. passion
N. provoking
O. unfortunately
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