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Universities are in a paradoxical position. As Stefan Collini【B1】______, the
Universities are in a paradoxical position. As Stefan Collini【B1】______, the
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2024-01-24
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Universities are in a paradoxical position. As Stefan Collini【B1】______, these ancient institutions havenever been so【B2】______ or so important. They receive more public money than they ever did. They arelauded as the engines of economic growth and technological advance. And yet they are frequently【B3】______ and troubled, harried by politicians and lacking a clear sense of purpose and【B4】______. Mr. Collini,professor of English literature and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge, is eager to rebuild theirconfidence. "Universities," he says, "provide homes for students to extend and【B5】______ humanunderstanding in ways which are, simultaneously, disciplined and illimitable. " It is the【B6】______ of thisactivity that public debate has【B7】______: the impact on the student’s capacity for understanding, or on acountry’s development of new technologies. But these are not the core purpose of a university. Mr. Collini is moved by Newman’s insistence that a liberal education is not about what students learn or what skills they【B8】______ but "the perspective they have on the place of their knowledge in a wider map of humanunderstanding. " But this is a far cry from the mechanisms government now uses to set goals for the properexpenditure of public money and to turn university students into【B9】______ " consumers" of highereducation. Universities will always feel the【B10】______between the intellectual purity that Mr. Collinidemands and the grubby business of picking and preparing the future middle class. Reconciling these two roles is the mark of a great university. [br] 【B3】
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defensive
解析
由空格前的they are frequently以及空格后的and troubled可以推断出,空格处应填入一个形容词。结合录音可知,答案是defensive,意为“防御的,防备批评或攻击的”。
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