填空题

If it were only necessary to decide whether to teach elementary science to everyone on
a mess basis or to find the gifted few and take them as far as they can go, our task would be (1) ______
fairly simple. The public school system, moreover, has no such choice, for the two jobs (2) ______
must be carried on at the same time. Because we depend so heavily upon science and
technology for our progress, we must produce specialists in many fields. Because we live (3) ______
in a democratic nation, whose citizens make the policies for the country, large numbers of (4) ______
us must be educated to understand, to support, and when necessary, to judge the work of
experts. The public school must educate for both producers and users of scientific ser (5) ______
vices. In education there should be a good balance among the branches of knowledge that
attribute to effective thinking and wise judgment. Such balance is defeated by too much (6) ______
emphasis on any one field. This question of balance involves not only the relation of the
natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts but also relative emphases between the (7) ______
natural sciences themselves. By contrast, we must have a balance between the current and (8) ______
classical knowledge. The attention of the public is continuously drawn to new possibilities (9) ______
in scientific fields and the discovery of new knowledge; these should not be allowed to
turn our attention from the sound, established materials that form the basis of courses for (10) ______
beginners.