第6部分：完形填空(第51-65题，每题l分，共15分) 下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。
Unpopular Subjects?
Is there a place in today's society for the study of useless subjects in our universities? Just over 100 years ago Fitzgerald argued in a well-written letter, (51) Nature that
Universities must be allowed to study useless subjects (52)they don't, who will? He went on to use the (53) of Maxwell's electrodynamics ( 电动力学 ) as one case where a useless subject" has been transformed to a useful subject.
Nowadays this argument is again very much (54) in many universities. Indeed one suspects that it is one of. those arguments that must be (55) anew (重新) by each generation. But now there is an added twist__________ subjects must not only be useful, they must also be (56) enough that students will flock (蜂拥) to do them, and even flock to pay to do them.
As umversities become commercial operations, the pressure to (57) subjects or departments that are less popular will become stronger and stronger, Perhaps this is most strongly (58) at the moment by physics. There has been much (59) in the press of universities that are closing down physics departments and incorporate them with mathematics or engineering departments.
Many scientists think otherwise. They see physics as a (60) science, which must be kept alive if only to (61) a base for other sciences and engineering. It is of their great personal concern that physics teaching and research is under (62) in many universities.
How can it be preserved in the rush towards commercial competition? A major turnaround (转变) in student popularity may have to (63) until the industrial world discovers that it needs physicists and starts paying them well.
Physics is now not only unpopular; it is also “hard". We can do more about the latter by (64)teaching in our Schools and universities. We can also (65) cooperative arrangements to ensure that physicists keep their research and teaching up to date.
请在第__(51)__处填上正确答案。
A.about
B.of
C.to
D.on
52、请在第__(52)__处填上正确答案。
A.if
B.as
C.because
D.since
53、请在第__(53)__处填上正确答案。
A.question
B.example
C.design
D.device
54、请在第__(54)__处填上正确答案。
A.powerful
B.terrible
C.difficult
D.active
55、请在第__(55)__处填上正确答案。
A.fought
B.weighted
C.respected
D.selected
56、请在第__(56)__处填上正确答案。
A.clear
B.popular
C.indefinite
D.available
57、请在第__(57)__处填上正确答案。
A.choose
B.strengthen
C.eliminate
D.identify
58、请在第__(58)__处填上正确答案。
A.recommended
B.opposed
C.suspected
D.felt
59、请在第__(59)__处填上正确答案。
A.discussion
B.fancy
C.evidence
D.influence
60、请在第__(60)__处填上正确答案。
A.precise
B.noble
C.new
D.fundamental
61、请在第__(61)__处填上正确答案。
A.install
B.provide
C.reach
D.cover
62、请在第__(62)__处填上正确答案。
A.agreement
B.construction
C.threat
D.consideration
63、请在第__(63)__处填上正确答案。
A.wait
B.move
C.progress
D.increase
64、请在第__(64)__处填上正确答案。
A.running
B.improving
C.learning
D.dropping
65、请在第__(65)__处填上正确答案。
A.fix
B.modify
C.review
D.develop
