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DWe ourselves,as products of an educational system,are sufficiently perfect evidence againstit.If we think of what we happily might have been,and then of what we are,we cannot but admitthe total failure or the helpless insufficiency of our education.Looking back on those years upon years which we spent in school,we know that somethingwas wrong.If we will remember,we did not,at the time,exactly approve of the school system.Many of us,in fact,went in for sabotages.Our favorite brand of sabotage was the"withdrawal ofefficiency"-in our case a kind of unconscious passive resistance.Good-natured onlookers,suchas our parents or the board of education,might have thought that we were learning something allthe while;but that's just where we fooled them!There were,of course,a few of us who reallylearned and remembered everything-who could state off-hand,right now,if anybody asked us,inwhat year Norman the Conqueror landed in England.But the trouble is that so few people ask us!There was one bit of honesty in our schooling-at its very end.They called that ending aCommencement(毕业典礼).And so indeed we found it.Confused,unprepared,out of touch withthe realities,we commenced()then and there to learn what life is like.We found itdiscouraging in a thousand ways;but the thing which struck us at the time most forcibly was thatit was in every respect quite unlike school.One could not cram for a job as if it were an examination;one could not get in the good graces of a machine as if it were a teacher;the docility()whichwon high"marks"in school was called lack of originality in the business world,dullness in sociallife,stupidity in the realm of love.We had been quite carefully prepared to go on studying andattending classes and taking examinations;but the real world was not like that.So,what differencedoes schooling make,to us or to the world?And what to us now are those victories and humiliations,the failure or.success of school?32.What is the purpose of this article?A.To complain about the educational system.B.To encourage readers to get educated in school.C To discuss about how to get good education in school.D.To talk about the relationship between school and society.33.What does the underlined word sabotage in 2d paragraph most probably mean?A.an unconscious act of destructionB.the low ability to be efficient高三英语第7页（共12页）