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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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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】________.
【C20】
选项
A、excellent
B、strange
C、funny
D、enough
答案
D
解析
句子主语That指代上一句的内容,因此可认为修饰That的表语即所需形容词应对前一句子的语义进行概括或评论。前一句子意为“我们需要人文学科是因为我们是人类”,结合文章主题,可知此理由从根本上说明人文学科以及英语专业存在的必要性。D项enough“足够的”代入后强调这一理由足以支持人文学科,符合逻辑要求。A项excellent“优秀,卓越”、B项strange或C项funny代入后表明作者认为上述理由“很棒”、“奇怪”或“有趣”。它们与探讨英语专业有必要存在的语篇没有关联。
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