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、appraisal
B、admiration
C、perplexity
D、controversy

答案D

解析 空白前谈到but.this point of view...,可以看出,作者的语气发生了转折,可以推测这种观点引发了不好的事情。故"appraisal(评估)"和"admiration(崇拜)"可以排除。"perplexity"意为"困惑",但从上下文看不出人们困惑的理由。"controversy’意为"争议",由上文内容可知,那些教师对现行的英语教学提出了质疑.显然,这会使英语教学的支持者们不满,从而引发争议。故controversy放在这里语义通畅,正确。
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