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  3. The study of literature allows us to glimpse universal truths as well as encounter the diversity of human experience in all its

The study of literature allows us to glimpse universal truths as well as encounter the diversity of human experience in all its

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问题     The study of literature allows us to glimpse universal truths as well as encounter the diversity of human experience in all its fascinating particularity. With expert guidance, an immersion in great novels, plays and poems can deliver a sense of spiritual headroom and wellbeing which lasts a lifetime.
    Such benefits—intangible but very real—were sadly not enough to persuade Sheffield Hallam University to continue to offer a standalone English literature degree to undergraduates. Amid falling demand generally for arts and humanities courses, a university spokesperson this week announced that the course was being suspended. The news prompted an outpouring of frustration from lecturers, and criticism from writers such as James Graham and Philip Pullman. It follows a similar move by the University of Cumbria last year and mounting cuts to humanities provision elsewhere. In May, recruitment for all performing arts courses at the University of Wolverhampton was suspended.
    This depressing trend is part of a wider pattern. It is understandable that young people from lower-income backgrounds, contemplating a working career shadowed by debt and punitive interest rates, might think twice about taking a non-vocational course. Applications for English studies, including English literature, have fallen steadily since 2012, when the cap on tuition fees was lifted to £9,000. There have also been drop-offs in other humanities subjects.
    Anxious that as many graduates as possible pay off their loans—for which the Treasury is ultimately on the hook—the government has focused on the virtues of Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Meanwhile, supposedly "dead end" university courses—those which fail to deliver an instant graduate premium in the job market—are coming under increasingly aggressive scrutiny. This year, the Office for Students set out plans to remove funding for "low quality" courses, defined as those where less than 60％ of participants go into good jobs or further study soon after graduating.
    The overall approach is both wrong-headed and shortsighted. As Mr Graham points out, the arts and entertainment industry has become one of the few booming areas of the economy in which Britain can claim to be world-leading. Narrowing the humanities talent pool to a privileged subset of students will, in this sense, be self-defeating. More fundamentally, it will radically shrink the cultural horizons and options of those outside that elite group.
    After a decade of marketisation, a grimly utilitarian worldview is beginning to exercise a suffocating chokehold over much of England’s higher education sector. But the intrinsic quality and worth of a course cannot be fairly judged by reference to employment statistics and labour market outcomes. Sheffield Hallam’s decision must be a wake-up call for those concerned to preserve the future of the arts and humanities in our universities.
Several universities are mentioned in Paragraph 2 to indicate that________.
选项 A、it is wise for colleges to suspend humanities courses
B、the demand for students learning arts and humanities is falling
C、lecturers teaching arts and humanities are treated unfairly
D、arts and humanities are under threat on campus
答案D
解析 例证题。根据题干可定位至第二段。D项对应第二段的内容，第一句提到人文学科的好处无法使谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学回心转意，后文又提到了各个学校暂停艺术或人文学科，由此可知，艺术和人文学科在校园受到威胁。D项正表达了该含义，故正确。选项A属于过度推理，suspended出现在第二句和最后一句末尾，分别说谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学和伍尔弗汉普顿大学的某人文课程被暂停。坎布里亚大学也采取了相似措施。但是我们无法推断这种做法是否明智，故排除该选项。B项属于偷换概念，第二句说的是学生／市场对艺术和人文课程的需求下降，而不是(学校／社会)对艺术和人文学科的学生的要求下降，故排除该选项。C项属于无中生有，原文提到讲师们的反应，并没有提到讲师们的待遇，故排除。故本题答案为D项。
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