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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 dear 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)_____, mused a great deal of (20)_____.
选项 A、focus
B、press
C、elaborate
D、insist
答案D
解析 此处承接上句，继续讨论教师对于写作的强调。意思说：他们坚称清晰的思维与表述清楚、含义精妙的文字表达形式密切相关。故空白处应该填表示"强调"含义的词。D项"insist"与文中的"on"意为"坚称，强调"，符合题意。focus on表示集中精力于某事(而不是别的事)，但文中仅是承接上文强调写作的作用，并不是说教师们集中全力做某件事情。pres on意为"强加于"，"elaborate on"意为"详述…"，放在这里均不合适。
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