Education is too important to take 【C1】______ , when people take anything for seriously, they put 【C2】______ blinders which cause them to miss the important aspects of 【C3】______ is going on around them. They 【C4】______ "tunnel vision," which limits and distorts their perception of 【C5】______ Education is too important to be limited by those who have chosen to wear blinders and develop tunnel vision.
I believe the 【C6】______ movement has encouraged many educators to take education too seriously. 【C7】______ we take education too seriously, we put standardized 【C8】______ scores above children, we put lesson plans above teachers, and we put on our blinders, only to see a rather small segment of the child--that segment that can be 【C9】______ easily 【C10】______ than looking at the child as a whole. By looking at the whole student, we can get a 【C11】______ of whether that student enjoys learning, 【C12】______ functioning well with others, and feels good 【C13】______ himself. How can we 【C14】______ off our blinders？ How can we eliminate tunnel vision to see the whole child？ How can we 【C15】______ take everything so seriously？ My recommendation is 【C16】______ laugh, teach, laugh!
Psychologists have 【C17】______ believed that negative emotions cause negative chemical changes in the body. We know the 【C18】______ is also true. We know that a person with a good sense of humor has better healing 【C19】______ . Laughter actually relaxes the muscles, allows the heartbeat and lowers the blood pressure. Laughter stirs the inside and gets tile endocrine system moving, which can be quite 【C20】______ in alleviating disease. Laughter also relieves boredom, tension, guilt, depression, headaches, and backaches.
【C1】

A. up
B. seriously
C. easily
D. over