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  3. Illiteracy may be considered more as an abstract concept than a condition. When a famous English writer used the (1)_____ over t

Illiteracy may be considered more as an abstract concept than a condition. When a famous English writer used the (1)_____ over t

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问题     Illiteracy may be considered more as an abstract concept than a condition. When a famous English writer used the (1)_____ over two hundred years ago, he was actually (2)_____ to people who could (3)_____ read Greek or Latin. (4)_____,it seems unlikely that university examiners had this sort of (5)_____ in mind when they reported on "creeping illiteracy" in a report on their students’ final examination in 1988. (6)_____ the years, university lecturers have been (7)_____ of an increasing tendency towards grammatical sloppiness, poor spelling and general imprecision (8)_____ their students’ ways of writing; and sloppy writing is all (9)_____ often a reflection of sloppy thinking. Their (10)_____ was that they had (11)_____ to do teaching their own subject (12)_____ teaching their undergraduates to write. Some lecturers believe that they have a (n) (13)_____ to stress the importance of maintaining standards of clear thinking (14)_____ the written word in a world dominated by (15)_____ communications and images. They (16)_____ on the connection between clear thinking and a form of writing that is not only clear, but also sensitive to (17)_____ of meaning. The same lecturers argue that undergraduates appear to be the victims of a "softening process" that begins (18)_____ the teaching of English in schools, but this point of view has, not (19)_____, caused a great deal of (20)_____.
选项 A、accuracy
B、appropriateness
C、subtleties
D、differences
答案C
解析 此处语境为：…对意思的精妙之处敏感。原文中的sensitive与"subtleties(精妙)"呼应，使文中语境完美，正确。"accuracy"和"appropriateness"仅指语义的正确性，与sensitive to相连，意思不贴切。"difference"属于一种变化，可与sensitive to连用，但上下文并未谈到语义的不同，与题意不合。
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