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1、专题限时检测(二十二)阅读理解词义猜测类之短语猜测题或句意理解题(加的为短语猜测题或句意理解题，本卷限时23分钟)A(2017南京市、盐城市高三模拟考试)Youve probably heard such reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities (人文学科) is decreasing quickly. The news has caused a flood of highminded essays criticizing the development as a symbol of American decline.The bright side is this: The destruction of the humanities by the humanities is, finally, coming to an end. No more will literature, as part of an academic curriculum, put out the light of li

2、terature. No longer will the reading of, say, “King Lear” orDH. Lawrences “Women in Love” result in the annoying stuff of multiplechoice quizzes, exam essays and homework assignments.The discouraging fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or Lawrence come alive for the lucky few, there were countless others who made the reading of literary masterpieces seem like two_hours_in_the_dentists_chair.The remarkably insignificant fact that, a halfcentury ago, 14% of the undergradu

3、ate population majored in the humanities (mostly in literature, but also in art, philosophy, history, classics and religion) as opposed to 7% today has given rise to serious reflections on the nature and purpose of an education in the liberal arts.Such reflections always come to the same conclusion: We are told that the lack of a formal education, mostly in literature, leads to numerous harmful personal conditions, such as the inability to think critically, to write clearly, to be curious about

4、other people and places, to engage with great literature after graduation, to recognize truth, beauty and goodness.These serious anxieties are grand, admirably virtuous and virtuously admirable. They are also a mere fantasy.The college teaching of literature is a relatively recent phenomenon. Literature did not even become part of the university curriculum until the end of the 19th century. Before that, what came to be called the humanities consisted of learning Greek and Latin, while the Bible

5、was studied in church as the necessary other half of a full education. No one ever thought of teaching novels, stories, poems or plays in a formal course of study. They were part of the leisure of everyday life.It was only after World War that the study of literature as a type of wisdom, relevant to actual, contemporary life, put down widespread institutional roots. Soldiers returning home in 1945 longed to make sense of their lives after what they had witnessed and survived. The abundant econom

6、y afforded them the opportunity and the time to do so. Majoring in English hit its peak, yet it was this very popularity of literature in the university that spelled its doom, as the academicization of literary art was accelerated.Literature changed my life long before I began to study it in college. Books took me far from myself into experiences that had nothing to do with my life, yet spoke to my life. But once in the college classroom, this precious, alternate life inside me got thrown back i

7、nto that dimension of my existence that bored me. Homer, Chekhov and Yeats were reduced to right and wrong answers, clearcut themes and clever interpretations. If there is anything to worry about, it should be the disappearance of what used to be an important part of every highschool education: the literature survey course, where books were not academically taught but thoroughly introduced an experience unaffected by stupid commentary and useless testing.The literary classics are places of quiet

8、, useless stillness in a world that despises (鄙视) any activity that is not profitable or productive. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.Soon, if all goes well and literature at last disappears from the undergraduate curriculum my fingers are crossed increasing numbers of people will be able to say that reading the literary masterworks of the past outside the college classroom, simply in the course of living, is, in fact, their college classroom.1.The author mentions

9、“two hours in the dentists chair” in Paragraph 3 to indicate that _.Athe average literature class in college is two hours longBreading literary works is made unbearable by professorsCit actually does not take long to read the classics of literatureDcollege students dont spend much time on literary masterworks解析：选B句意理解题。根据该部分所在的语境可知，部分幸运的学生能遇到把莎士比亚或劳伦斯讲得有声有色的教授，而不计其数的其他教授却让文学巨著的阅读变成一种煎熬。所以对某些学生来说教授们把文学阅读变成了一种令人难以忍受的经历。2The sharp drop in the number of majors in the humanities _.Ahas given rise to quite a shock in the intellectual worldBpromises the remarkable destruction of the humanitiesCshows more people read literature outside the classroomDhas caused the author to reflect on the nature of literary creation解析：选A推理判断题。根据第四段中的“. as opposed to 7% today has given rise to serious reflections on the nature and purpose of an education in the liberal arts”可知，学习人文学科的学生人数急剧下降让知识界感到吃惊，并引起他们的反思。

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