高中英语每日习题打卡阅读理解(289)

     Imagine a world without English majors. In the last decade, the study of English andhistory in college has fallen by a third. According to a recent story in The New Yorker, "TheEnd of the English Major." this decline is largely a result of economic factors: whichdepartments get funded or what students earn after graduation, etc. Fields once wide open toEnglish majors, such as teaching, academia, publishing, the arts, the media have collapsed orbecome less desirable. Facing huge academic debt and an uncertain job market, students mayfind majors like communication arts and digital storytelling more realistic.

    And yet another important and discouraging part of the story is that the study of English itself may have lost its allure ( 吸引力 even among kids who enjoy reading. They are leaming

to hate the subject well before college. Both in terms of what kids are assigned and how they are instructed to read it, English class in middle and high school-now renamed as language arts, or language and literature-is often a suffering. It's as if once schools teach kids how to read, they devote the remainder of their education to making them dread doing so.

   A typical high school assignment now involves painstakingly marking up text with coloredpencils in search of "literary devices"-red for imagery and diction, yellow for tone or mood,etc. Students are instructed to read even popular fiction at an extremely slow pace in the serviceof close-reading in unison (完全一致的).They're warned not to skip ahead. No one is supposedto feel excited!

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