考研英语二（完形填空）-试卷84
(总分120, 做题时间90分钟)
1. Use of English
Section I    Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D.
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 depart
ment 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】______.
1. 
【C1】
A theme
B dispute
C issue
D inquiry
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答案:C
解析：空格前定冠词The表明所需名词应指上文出现过的事物。推断该词的语义应有“问题”之意，以回指上句提到的问题。故C项issue“议题，问题”正确。
2. 
【C2】
A reviews
B compositions
C abstracts
D summaries
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答案:A
解析：空格处于in引导的状语中，指明讨论上述问题的地点或场所，且与columns“(报纸上的)专栏”有较密切语义关系。A项reviews作名词时意为“评论，述评”，可指针对为什么需要英语专业这一问题而发表的意见。
3. 
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【C3】
A wrong
B dying
C classical
D desperate
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答案:B
解析：句子前半段提到拉丁语已从大学课程中消失，并且英语专业也步其后尘。由此可知空格后的a dead subject指的是拉丁语，而choice指的是英语专业。因此B项dying“将死的，垂死的”可满足语义要求，指英语专业即将消失。
4. 
【C4】
社工证报考条件2021报名时间
A to
B with
C from
全国各大学录取分数线排名表
D in
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2022国家公务员考试确认入口答案:B
解析：本句是支撑The English major is vanishing的论据，空格处介词搭配graduated后连接an English major应表示“1，560名毕业生中，仅有16名英语专业的毕业生”。B项with可表示伴随，故正确。
5. 
函授大专怎么升全日制本科【C5】
A small
B interesting
C objective
D special
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答案:A
解析：句子提到“1，560名毕业生中，仅有16名英语专业的毕业生”，可见英语专业的毕业生很少，因此空格处形容词代入短语后应有“数量很少”之意，故选A项small“小的”，表示是很小的数字。
6. 
【C6】
A In conclusion
B By contrast
C In response
D On average
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答案:C
解析：逗号后句子指出“为英语专业辩护的言论有所上升”，这说明一部分人针对上述问题提出了看法。所需连接词应体现为英语专业辩护与上述问题间的逻辑关系．故C项In response“作为回应，为此”符合逻辑要求。
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7. 
【C7】
A improving on
B concerning over
C battling against
D rooting for
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答案:D
解析：空格所在的to one．．．介词短语中，one用作不定代词，指任意一个人；them指代de—fenses，连同表示目的的to persuade一起作one的定语。根据表示递进意义的even及短语中各成分的语义关系，可以推测此人(one)赞同用辩护言论(defenses)来说服(to persuade)他人去认识英语专业的必要性。D项rooting for“支持”满足此语义要求，代入后短语意为“对于那些赞同为英语专业辩护的人来说”。
8. 
【C8】
A insisting
B protesting
C predicting
D admitting
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答案:A
解析：句中one．．．，the other．．．介绍的是两种辩护言论，连接one和that从句的词需说明that English majors make better people是一些人持有的观点。A项insisting“坚称，
认定”代入后，指第一种言论“坚称英语专业让人们变得更优秀”。
9. 
【C9】
A out
B off
C up
D for
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答案:D
解析：此处表明的是另一种辩护，认为英语专业能为促进社会的发展。D项for代入后组成make for的固定短语，意为“有利于，让……得以实现”。