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Have you ever wondered what our future is like? Practically all people (1) __________ a desire to predict their future (2) __________.Most people seem inclined to (3) __________ this task using causal reasoning. First we generally recognize that future circumstances are (4) __________ caused or conditioned by present ones. We learn that getting an education will (5) __________ how much money we earn later and that swimming beyond the reef may bring an unhappy (6) __________ with a shark.
Second, people also learn that such (7) __________ of cause and effect are probabilistic (可能的) in nature. That is, the effects occur more often when the causes occur than when the causes are (8) __________, but not always. Thus, students learn that studying hard (9) __________ good grades in most instances, but not every time. Science makes these concepts of causality and probability more (10) __________ and provides techniques for dealing with then more accurately than does causal human inquiry. In looking at ordinary human inquiry, we need to (11) __________ between prediction and understanding. Often, even if we don't understand why, we are willing to act on the basis of a demonstrated predictive ability.
Whatever the primitive drives (12) __________ motivate human beings, satisfying them depends heavily on the ability to (13) __________ future circumstances. The attempt to predict is often played in a context of knowledge and understanding. If you can understand why certain regular patterns (14) __________, you can predict better than if you simply observe those patterns. Thus, human inquiry aims at answering both \"what\" and \"why\" question, and we pursue these (15) __________ by observing and figuring out.
参及解析 1. exhibit，\"展出 ，表现\"。原句意为：实际上，人们会对未来的生活怀有（展示出）一定的愿望。 2. circumstances， \"环境\"。
3. undertake，\"承担， 担任\为常见搭配，意为\"开始进行一项任务\"。 4. somehow，篇章逻辑 somehow\"不知何故，以某种方式\"。 5. affect，“影响”。干扰项inflect意为“弯曲”。
6. encounter，encounter指没有事先计划的、未料到的、短暂的相遇。干扰项meeting意为“碰面”，多指 7. patterns，“模式，式样”， 第一段中 提到过人们习惯用因果关系去推断，这是一种思考模式。 8. absent，“缺少的，不在的”， 根据文中意思应选一个与 occur意思相反的词。 9. produces，“产生，得到”， 原句意为学生知道努力学习在大多数情况下会得到高的分数。 10. explicit，“外在的，清楚地”， 原句意为：科学使因果性和可能性的观念变的更加清楚。 11. distinguish，“区别，辨别”， distinguish between为常用搭配，意为\"区别... 和...\"。干扰项distinct意为“清楚的，明显的”。 12. that，语法结构 drive在此为名词，意为“动力”，空格后部分是对drive进行修饰，故 选关系代词that引导定语从句。 13. predict，“预言”。
14. occur，“发生，出现”。干扰项incur意为“招致”。 15. goals，“目的，目标”。
