Test 9
Section C
A very large number of people (36) ______ when quite young to add anything to a limited stock of judgments. After a certain age, say 25, they consider that their education is (37) ______ .
It's perhaps (38) ______ that having passed through that painful and boring process, called expertly education, they should suppose it over, and that they are (39) ______ for life to label every event as it (40) ______ and drops it into its given pigeonhole (分类架，文件架). But one who has a label ready for everything does not bother to observe any more, even such (41) ______ happenings as he has observed for himself, with attention, before he went to school. He (42) ______ acts and reacts.
For people who have stopped (43) ______ , the only possible new or renewed experience, and, therefore, new knowledge, is from a work of art. Because that is the only kind of experience (44) _____________________________________________________________ , they will come out from their shells and expose themselves to music, to a play, to a book, because it is the accepted method of enjoying such things. True, even to plays and books they may bring artistic prejudices which prevent them from seeing or comprehending that book. (45) ______________________________________________________________________ .
But it is part of an artist's job to break crusts, or let us say (46) _____________________________________________________________________________ because they want to communicate their intuitions (直觉).
