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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】________.
【C19】
选项 A、honor
B、justify
C、enjoy
D、cherish
答案C
解析 第二段谈到Paxson认同第二种辩护言论，即认为英语专业(至少人文学科)能创造更美好的社会，能最终给予我们真正热爱的东西(giving us other stuff we actually like)。推断她认为人文学科具有积极作用，能帮助我们更好地享受生活，选C项enjoy“享受”。基于Paxson对人文学科和英语专业的诠释，无法推断她认为人文学科能让人们给生活更多的“荣誉”(A项honor)、更好地“解释”(B项justify)或更好地“珍惜”(D项cherish)生活。
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