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Why do we need the English major? The【C1】________is in every mouth—or, at least, is discussed extensively in columns and【C2】____
Why do we need the English major? The【C1】________is in every mouth—or, at least, is discussed extensively in columns and【C2】____
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Why do we need the English major? The【C1】________is in every mouth—or, at least, is discussed extensively in columns and【C2】________. The English major is vanishing from our colleges as the Latin vanished before it, we’re told, a【C3】________choice bound to a dead subject. This spring at Pomona College, 16 students graduated【C4】________an English major out of a student body of 1,560, a terribly【C5】________number, and from other, similar schools, other, similar numbers.
【C6】________. a number of defenses have been mounted, none of them, so far, terribly persuasive even to one【C7】________them to persuade. The defenses come in two kinds: one【C8】________that English majors make better people, the other that English majors (or at least humanities majors) make【C9】________better societies; that, as Christina Pax-son, the president of Brown University, just put it in The New Republic, "there are real, definite benefits to the humanistic【C10】________—to the study of history, literature, art, theater, music, and languages." We need the humanities, she explains patiently,【C11】________they may end up giving us other stuff we actually like: "We do not always know the future benefits of what we study and【C12】________should not rush to reject some forms of research as less【C13】________than others."
The study of English, to be sure,【C14】________from its own discontents: it isn’t a science, and so the "research" you do is not really research. So why have English majors? Well, because many people like books. Most of those like to talk about them after they’ve read them, or while they’re in the middle. One might call this a natural or【C15】________consequence of literacy. And it’s this living, irresistible, permanent interest in reading that【C16】________English departments, and makes【C17】________of English majors.【C18】________we closed down every English department in the country, loud, good, expert, or at least hyper-enthusiastic readers would still emerge.
As one important branch of humanities, studying English won’t be time-wasted. As Professor Paxson said, the humanities help us【C19】________life more and endure it better. The reason we need the humanities is because we’re human. That’s【C20】________.
【C14】
选项
A、derives
B、recovers
C、differs
D、suffers
答案
D
解析
冒号后表达提到英语学科自身的缺陷(discontents),由此可推测空格处动词应说明The study of English所处的这一困境。D项suffers与介词from组成固定搭配“遭受,因……而受苦(损)”。可满足此语义要求,指英语学科“苦于其自身缺陷”。A项derives和C项differs代入后意为“起源于”和“不同于”,语义和逻辑不对。B项recovers from“从……恢复”代入句中表明英语专业已摆脱困境,与文中的事实相反。
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