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Have you ever wondered what our future is like? Practically all people exhibit a desire to predict their
future   11   . Most people seem inclined to undertake this task using causal reasoning. First we generally
recognize that future circumstances are   12   caused or conditioned by present ones. We learn that getting
an education will affect how much money we earn later and that swimming beyond the reef may bring an
unhappy   13   with a shark.
Second,people also learn that such   14   of cause and effect are probabilistic in nature. That is, the
effects occur more often when the causes occur than when the causes are absent, but not always.   15   ,
students learn that studying hard will produce good grades in most instances, but not every time. Science
makes these concepts of causality and probability more   16   and provides techniques for dealing with them
more accurately than does causal human inquir3'. In looking at ordinary human inquiry, ,we need to distinguish
between prediction and understanding. Often,even if we don't understand why,we are willing to act   17
the basis of a demonstrated predictive ability.
Whatever the primitive drives   18   motivate human beings, satisfying them depends heavily on the
ability to predict future circumstances. The attempt to predict is often played in a context of knowledge and
understanding. If you can understand why certain regular patterns   19   , you can predict better than if you
simply observe those patterns. Thus, human inquiry aims at answering both" what" and" why" questions, and
we pursue these   20   by observing and figuring out.
第（11）题选

A．contexts
B．circumstances
C．inspections
D．intuitions

参考答案B
解析:context“语境”；circumstance“境况”；inspection“检查，视察”；intuition“直觉”。预测未来通常是为了知道自己的境遇。由下文的“future circumstances”可知选B。
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