专业四级英语模拟试题（完型篇8）
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 _4_ recognize that future circumstances are _5_ caused or conditioned by present ones.We learn that getting an education will _6_ how much money we earn later and that swimming beyond the reef may bring an unhappy _7_ with a shark.Second,people also learn that such _8_ 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 _9_, but not always.Thus,students learn that studying hard _10_ good grades in most instances,but not every time.Science makes these concepts of causality and probability more _11_ and provides techniques for dealing _12_ then more accurately than does causal human inquiry.In looking at ordinary human inquiry,we need to _13_ between prediction and understanding.Often,even if we don't understand why,we are willing to act _14_ the basis of a demonstrated predictive ability.
Whatever the primitive drives _15_ motivate human beings,satisfying them depends heavily on the ability to _16_ future circumstances.The attempt to predict is often played in a _17_ of knowledge and understanding.If you can understand why certain regular patterns _18_,you can predict better than if you simply observe those patterns.Thus,human inquiry aims _19_ answering both "what" and "why" question,and we pursue these _20_ by observing and figuring out.
1. exhibit exaggerate examine exceed
2. contexts circumstances inspections intuitions
3.underestimate undermine undertake undergo
4. specially particularly always generally
5. somehow somebody someone something
6. enact affect reflect inflect
7. meeting occurrence encounter contact
8. patterns designs arrangementspictures
9. disappointde absent inadequate absolute
10.creates produces loses protects
11.obscure indistinct explicit explosive
12.for at in with
13.distinguish distinct distort distract
14.at on to under
15.why how that where
16.predict produce pretend precede
17.content contact contest context
18.happen occur occupy incur
19.at on to beyond
20.purposes ambitions drives goals
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