【C14】_考试资料网

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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】.【C1】

A．theme
B．dispute
C．issue
D．inquiry

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C1】

A．meeting
B．conversation
C．reservation
D．greeting

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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】.【C2】

A．reviews
B．compositions
C．abstracts
D．summaries

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C2】

A．craft
B．search
C．await
D．clarify

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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】.【C3】

A．wrong
B．dying
C．classical
D．desperate

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C3】

A．piercing through
B．looking through
C．peering through
D．seeing through

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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】.【C4】

A．to
B．with
C．from
D．in

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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】.【C5】

A．small
B．interesting
C．objective
D．special

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C4】

A．anticipation
B．entertainment
C．glory
D．joy

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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】.【C6】

A．In conclusion
B．By contrast
C．In response
D．On average

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C5】

A．shoot
B．stream
C．convert
D．direct

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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】.【C7】

A．improving on
B．concerning over
C．battling against
D．rooting for

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C6】

A．frame
B．submit
C．save
D．distinguish

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C7】

A．mechanical
B．digital
C．intellectual
D．social

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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】.【C8】

A．insisting
B．protesting
C．predicting
D．admitting

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C8】

A．Faster
B．Newer
C．Cheaper
D．Smaller

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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】.【C9】

A．out
B．off
C．up
D．for

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C9】

A．conclude
B．conceal
C．prove
D．capture

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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】.【C10】

A．disciplines
B．principles
C．values
D．ideals

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C10】

A．until
B．despite
C．since
D．through

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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】.【C11】

A．though
B．because
C．hence
D．while

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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】.【C12】

A．otherwise
B．meanwhile
C．therefore
D．moreover

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C11】

A．Likewise
B．Otherwise
C．Therefore
D．However

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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】.【C13】

A．demanding
B．deserving
C．enduring
D．affecting

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C12】

A．forum
B．parameter
C．software
D．platform

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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】.【C14】

A．derives
B．recovers
C．differs
D．suffers

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C13】

A．as
B．though
C．but
D．and

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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】.【C15】

A．inevitable
B．immediate
C．ultimate
D．essential

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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】.【C16】

A．advocates
B．supports
C．protects
D．creates

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C14】

A．regularly
B．constantly
C．respectively
D．progressively

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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】.【C17】

A．sense
B．plan
C．fun
D．awareness

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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】.【C18】

A．Since
B．As
C．If
D．Although

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C15】

A．expression
B．affection
C．appearance
D．preference

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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】.【C19】

A．honor
B．justify
C．enjoy
D．cherish

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C16】

A．unless
B．before
C．so
D．when

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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】

A．excellent
B．strange
C．funny
D．enough

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C17】

A．without
B．for
C．by
D．after

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C18】

A．useful
B．necessary
C．smart
D．complicated

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C19】

A．resulted in
B．turned into
C．found out
D．provided for

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Look at your smartphone. Think about the decisions you will make on it today. You may snatch a dinner【C1】, tell your spouse you"re running late, or【C2】a response to an email from your boss. But you might also decide that the light【C3】the trees is worth an Instagram. You may write something on Facebook about the【C4】of seeing your 5-year-old make a new friend at the park, or the frustration of watching your father get old and need to move into a home. You may choose a song on Spotify,【C5】a movie on Netflix, or open a Kindle book. You may decide how to【C6】a photo to send to a friend or lover. It"s easy to think of our【C7】revolutions as purely technological achievements.【C8】microprocessors let everyone have a PC at home. Internet allowed computers to talk to each other. But that doesn"t【C9】the reasons these breakthroughs mattered so much to us. At their core, these were also creative revolutions. The PC didn"t truly touch us【C10】the rise of desktop publishing, followed by the rise of multimedia development tools, followed by the rise of web development tools. Its emotional power arrived with the ability to create amazing things on it.【C11】, the Internet revolution really took off when we used it not just to download facts and figures but as a【C12】to share music, writing, movies, and pictures. The number one site on the web may be Google,【C13】number two and three are Facebook and YouTube,【C14】—both primarily outlets for personal【C15】. We created the desktop computer and the Internet as tools for efficiency, productivity, and communication. But they came to have real meaning for us【C16】our natural creative drive took them over. Now it"s the phone"s turn. The smartphone began with a promise of productivity. Smartphones let us send messages【C17】launching a computer, that"s what made them【C18】. The smartphone, like the PC and the Internet before it, has【C19】a unique outlet for our creative impulses, and it will【C20】our creative lives even more fundamentally.【C20】

A．balance
B．memorize
C．affect
D．simplify

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