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  3. 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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问题     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】________.
【C13】
选项 A、demanding
B、deserving
C、enduring
D、affecting
答案B
解析 根据该表达中的比较级形式，可推理所需形容词的逻辑主语应是some forms of research(某些研究类别)，less…than others应意为“(某些研究类别)不如其他的研究”。通常，人们会因为某个事物不具备研究价值而拒绝对它进行研究。B项deserving“值得的”置于否定词less后，指some forms of research不值得研究。根据语篇提示，只能推断有可能因为某些研究类别不具有研究价值而抗拒它们，不会是因为它们不够“苛求”(A项demanding)、不够“持久”(C项enduring)或不够“感人”(D项affecting)而拒绝这些研究类别。
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