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As many as 40% of university language departments are likely to close within a decade, the former government adviser charged wi

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问题     As many as 40% of university language departments are likely to
close within a decade, the former government adviser charged with
bolstering foreign language uptake in higher education has warned,
delivering a huge blow to the UK’s diplomatic and economic hopes.
    Amid a deepening crisis in a language learning—which is causing【S1】_________________
alarm at highest levels  of government—the  number of universities【S2】_________________
offering degrees in modern languages have already plunged from 105 in【S3】_________________
2000 to 62 at the start of this academic year.
    The rate of attrition is expected to continue into the next decade. A
further 20 departments will be vulnerable to close in the next 10 years,【S4】_________________
and there is growing concern that the pace of decline is set to quicken,【S5】_________________
according to Professor Mike Kelly, a former adviser on the Department
for Education’s steering group on languages and now head of the
government-funded Routes into Languages programme co-ordinating
attempts to increase the uptake of language degrees in England.
    Huge areas of the country are being left without any degree-level
language courses, which in turn is increasing the number of language【S6】_________________
teachers in schools, compounding the crisis. Last week it emerged that
A-level candidates for French and German fell to 50% between 1996 and【S7】_________________
2012.
    The Foreign Office has become increasingly concerning about the【S8】_________________
future of its diplomatic corps, with senior figures privately voicing urgent
concerns about the standard of their graduate recruits. It has built its own【S9】_________________
languages school and is spending ￡lm a year to bring the civil service upon【S10】_______________
to scratch.
【S8】
选项
答案concerning—concerned
解析 词性混用。该句意为“外交部已经越来越担忧……。”become concerned about为固定搭配，意思是“对……感到担忧”，concerned为形容词，意为“关心的，担心的”，而concerning为介词，意为“关于，就……而言”，故将concerning改为concerned。
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