No sooner ________________ （我一出门，就认识到错了).

American higher education stands on the brink of chaos.

Never have so many spent so long learning so little. The present

crisis stems from the increasing widespread acceptance among 【S1】______.

faculty and administrators of the fatal educational principle

which a student should not be required to do any academic work 【S2】______.

that displeases him. If a student prefers not to study science or history

or literature, he has allowed to attain his degree without studying any 【S3】______.

science, history, or literature.

In America the attempt is being made to provide students

with what is advised as a liberal education without requiring by them 【S4】______.

the necessary self-discipline and hard work. Students have been led to

believe they can achieve without effort, that all they need to do is skip

light-heartedly down the merry road to learning. Fortunately, that road 【S5】______.

is no more than a detour (弯路) to the dead end of ignorance.

We must realize that becoming an educated person is a

difficult, demanded enterprise. Just as anyone who regards intense 【S6】______.

physical training as a source of delight would be thought a fool, for

we all know how much pain such training involves, but anyone who 【S7】______.

speaks intense mental exertion as a source of joy ought to be thought 【S8】______.

equally foolish, for such effort also involves pain. It is painful to have

one's ignorance exposing and frustrating to be baffled by intellectual 【S9】______.

subtleties. Of course, there can be joy in learning as there can be in sport.

But in both cases a joy is the result of overcoming challenges and can't 【S10】______.

be experienced without toil.

【S1】

ly aging population in rural Europe.

e effects of cigarettes on health.

s killed.

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peared, there was/were ______ to refer to.