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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】________.
【C16】
选项 A、advocates
B、supports
C、protects
D、creates
答案B
解析 上句说明阅读以及谈论读书感想是具有读写能力的结果和体现，而读写能力则来自于英语知识的学习。因此应认为是“阅读兴趣”让英语系有存在的理由。B项supports“支持，支撑”代入后可指人们的阅读需求维系着英语系。A项advocates“拥护，提倡”一般指用口或笔这类语言手段支持，常指鼓动或辩论。C项protects“保护”某物的目的是使其免受伤害或毁坏。D项creates“创造，创建”为一般现在时，表明这是当下的情形，但英语系是早就出现的科系。
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