Statistics is not most students' __36__subject. Next to calculus and organic chemistry, it might be the most avoided class in any college undergraduate program. The truth, however, is that statistics __37__ our lives every minute of every day. Suffice to say, all of us are pawns of probability. Given enough time, enough drivers, enough __38__problems in the water main—eventually someone will stop their car over a manhole cover that is about to __39__. It may happen only once in a year, or ten years, or maybe more, but it will happen. How do we know this? Because it happened. The words random and luck are really __40__ for a more jargony term: probabilistic outcomes. 【題組】36. (A) challenging (B) difficult (C) favorite