考研英语二(完形填空)模拟试卷126
完型填空
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, \\
1.【C1】(C)
A. theme
B. dispute
C. issue
D. inquiry
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)
A. reviews
B. compositions
C. abstracts
D. summaries
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.【C3】(B)
A. wrong
B. dying
C. classical
D. desperate
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】(B)
A. to
B. with
C. from
D. in
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.【C5】(A)
A. small
B. interesting
C. objective
D. special
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】(C)
A. In conclusion
B. By contrast
C. In response
D. On average
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。
7.【C7】(D)
A. improving on
B. concerning over
C. battling against
D. rooting for
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defenses,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)
A. insisting
B. protesting
C. predicting
D. admitting
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】(D)
A. out
B. off
C. up
D. for
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”。
10.【C10】(A)
A. disciplines
B. principles
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