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More than 2,000 years ago, the philosopher socrates wandered around athens asking questions, an approach to find truth that thinkers venerated ever since.(1)____(2)____ in modem times, the socratic method was adapted for use in universities and became the dominant form of instruction for students learning philosophy and the law. the most recently national survey on the subject found that 97% of law-school professors use the socratic method in first-year classes.(3)____ socratic dialogues seem to work for the ancient greeks.(4)____ are they efficient for people today?(5)____ recently, a group of researchers decided to find out.

In a study published in the december 2011 issue of the journal mind, brain, and education, four cognitive scientists from argentina describe what happened when they asked contemporary high school and college students a series of questions identified to those posed by socrates.(6)____ in one of his most famous lessons, socrates showed a young slave boy with a square, then led him through a series of 50 questions intended to teach the boy how to draw the second square with an area twice as large as the first.(7)____ students in the 2011 experiment, led by researcher andrea goldin, gave answers astonishing similar to those offered by socrates' pupils, even making the same mistakes he made.(8)____(9)____ " our results show that the socratic dialogue is built on a strong intuition of human knowledge and reasoning which persist more than twenty-four centuries after its conception," the researchers write.(10)____ their findings, goldin and his co-authors add, demonstrate the existence of "human cognitive universalstraversing time and cultures. "

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文章大意
本文讨论的是问答式教学方法。2000年前，哲学家苏格拉底创造了问答式教学方法，由此找到了一种备受思想隶崇敬的寻求真理的方法。在当代，苏格拉底的方法被用在大学里，成为学生学习哲学和法律的主要教学形式。最新调查发现，97%的法律院校教授在第一年的课堂里会使用这种方法。但这些方法对今天的学生来说还适用吗？最近，一组研究人员决定探个究竟。实验结果表明，苏格拉底的对话是建立在强大的人类知识和推理直觉上的，同时也证明了能够穿越时间和文化的人类认知共性的存在。
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1．find→finding词汇错误。approach作名词的用法是approach to sth/doing sth; to是介词，后面应该接名词或动名词，表示“做某事的途径，方法”。
2．∧venerated→have语法错误。ever since意为“从那时起”，通常与现在完成时连用，故此句的时态要用现在完成时，应在venerated前加have。
3．recently→recent语法错误。此处所修饰的是名词survey（调查），而前面又有副词most修饰，所以应该用形容词形式recent。
4．seem→seemed语法错误。本句中的ancient greeks暗示苏格拉底的对话式教学方法对古希腊人是有效的，这是对过去事物的描述，所以动词应该用过去时态。
5．efficient→effective词汇错误。上一句提到了苏格拉底的对话式教学方法对古希腊凡是有救的，本句要表达的意思应该是“那这种方法对现代人是否有效呢？”此处应强调这种方法的“有效性”而不是“高教性”，故应用effective。
6．identified→identical。identified意为“被识别的，被认可的”，用在此处解释不通。identical to是固定搭配，意为“同样的，与……相同的”，此句的大意是“四位科学家向我们描述当代高中生和大学生在被问及当年苏格拉底曾提出的相类似的问题时，发生了什么情况？”
7．with→with语法错误。动词show后面接双宾语时，其结构为show sb. sth.或者show sth to sb.，所以此处应删掉介词with。
8．astonishing→astonishingly语法错误。此处修饰的是形容词similar，所以应该用副词形式astonishingly。
9．pupils→pupil语法错误。此处pupil所指的就是上文出现的a young slave boy．而不是泛指socrates的一些学生，所以应该用单数形式。根据下文出现的he也可知此娃同指上文的the boy。
10. persist→persists语法错误。persist的主语which所代替的先行词是a strong intuition，是一个单数概念的词，所以谓语动词也要用单数形式。