The universities are schools of education and research but the main reason for their existence is not in the knowledge taught to the students or in the opportunities for the economic or social ___50___ resulting from the research findings.
The true function of a university is that it keeps the ___51___ between knowledge and the real life. It unites the students with ordinary life in a ___52___ way. The university passes on information, but it ___53___ the information imaginatively. Imagination is the driving force for the society’s future development.  Students’ imagination is the very ___54___ every university should protect and encourage. A university which ___55___ to do so has no reason for existence. With imagination, knowledge is not only knowledge: it includes all possibilities. It’s no longer a ___56___ on students’ memory. It’s food for thought and ___57___ for creative inventions.
Imagination is not ___58___ knowledge. Instead, it is a way leading to more knowledge. It works by thoroughly studying the current knowledge and then exploring every possibility about the knowledge. In the exploration, new knowledge ___59___. Imagination enables men to construct a new vision of the world and it adds ___60___ to life through endless possibilities. Imaginative people are restless all along.
Youth is imaginative and if the university can help preserve this precious wealth, the power of imagination can ___61___ change the world. Besides, it should also be made clear that imagination won’t be most effective without necessary experience.  The problem of the current world is that those who are imaginative have only little experience ___62___ those who are experienced have weak imaginations. The ___63___ left for the universities is to hold together these two factors for the whole human race to ___64___ greater development and happiness.

A．problem B．development C．life D．inquiry

A．connection B．attraction C．difference D．tradition

A．technical B．difficult C．creative D．basic

A．supposes B．conveys C．expects D．weighs

A．spirit B．goods C．message D．theory

A．tries B．pretends C．fails D．means

A．burden B．treasure C．schedule D．science

A．result B．material C．cost D．figure

A．superior to B．familiar with C．separate from D．strict with

A．takes shape B．steps in C．sets off D．speeds up

A．proof B．excitement C．greed D．seed

A．temporarily B．carefully C．reluctantly D．finally

A．because B．unless C．while D．until

A．sympathy B．solution C．condition D．purpose

A．require B．fix C．imagine D．achieve