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The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by_1 the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. At least, this is the2_which it should perform for society. A university which fails in this respect has no reason for _3__ .

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This atmosphere of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration, transforms knowledge. A fact is no longer a bare fact: it is1 all its possibilities. It is no longer a burden on the memory: it is energising as the poet of our dreams, and as the architect of our purposes. Imagination is not to be 2____ the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts.

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It works by drawing the general principles which _1 the facts, as they exist, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are 2_ those principles. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world, and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying purposes. Youth is imaginative, and if the imagination be _3__ by discipline this energy of imagination can in great measure be preserved through life.

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The tragedy of the world is that those who are _1 have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination. The task of a university is to _2____ imagination and experience.

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Listen to a short passage concerning the power of beauty.[音频]One of the most successful, influential and beloved women in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she had one regret: she wished she had been prettier. Who hasn’t felt the same way? We are all too 1of our physical imperfections. To overcome them, we spend billions upon billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, diet products, fashion, and plastic 2 .

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Listen to a short passage concerning the power of beauty.[音频]Why do we care so much about how we look? Because it1 . Because beauty is powerful. Because even when we learn to value people mostly for being kind and wise and funny, we are still moved by beauty. No matter how much we2 it or pretend to be immune, beauty3 its power over us. There is simply no escape.

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Listen to a short passage concerning the power of beauty.[音频]Our1 to physical beauty is not something we can control 2. We are born with it. Experiments conducted by psychologist Judith J. Langlois showed that even small infants prefer to look at attractive faces. Before they have met a single supermodel, before they have watched a single TV show, before they have opened up a single fashion magazine, they are drawn to the same faces which adults have3 to be attractive.

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Listen to a short passage concerning the power of beauty.[音频]There are more important things in life than beauty. But as Etcoff says, “We have to understand beauty, or we will always be1by it.” If you aim to be wise and kind and funny, it doesn’t mean that you can’t also try your best to look beautiful. There’s no reason to2being moved by beauty’s power. It moves us all.

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