It's said the most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can 【C1】_

_____ the joy of discovering something important to you. It may be an idea or a bit of information you 【C2】______ accidentally—or a sudden 【C3】______ , fitting together pieces of information or working through a problem. Such personal 【C4】______ are the "payoff" in education. A teacher may 【C5】______ you to learning and even encourage you in it—but no teacher can make the excitement happen. That's 【C6】______ to you.

A research paper, 【C7】______ in a course and perhaps checked at various stages by an instructor, 【C8】______ you beyond classrooms, beyond the texts for classes and into a 【C9】______ where the joy of discover and learning can come to you many times. 【C10】______ the research paper is an active and ideal individual learning process. It provided a structure 【C11】______ which you can make exciting discoveries, of knowledge and of self. But it also gives you a chance to individualize a school assignment, to 【C12】______ a piece of work to your own interests and abilities, to show others 【C13】______ you can do. Writing a research paper is more than just a classroom exercise. It's an experience in 【C14】______ out, understanding and synthesizing, which forms the basis of many skills 【C15】______ to both academic and nonacademic tasks. It is, a discovering education. So, to produce a good research paper is both a useful and a thoroughly 【C16】______ experience!

To some, the thought of having to write an assigned number of pages, often more than ever produced 【C17】______ , is disconcerting. To others, the idea of having to work 【C18】______ is threatening. But there's no need to approach the research paper assignment with anxiety, and nobody should view the research paper as an obstacle to 【C19】______ . Instead, consider it a goal to 【C20】______ , a goal within reach.

【C1】

A．exceed

B．beat

C．intervene

D．terminate