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A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)【C1】______ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent【C2】______: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will【C3】______. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring【C4】______ change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about【C5】______ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and【C6】______ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another【C7】______ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to【C8】______ their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars【C9】______, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems,【C10】______ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.【C3】

答案： 正确答案：D
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答案： 正确答案：L
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A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultant’s life is tiring. A【C1】______ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily【C2】______ a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job【C3】______"insecure overachievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more【C4】______ jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and【C5】______ allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places【C6】______ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They【C7】______ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system【C8】______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not【C9】______ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,【C10】______ enough sleep.【C1】
答案： 正确答案：O
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答案： 正确答案：G
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答案： 正确答案：E
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答案： 正确答案：O
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答案： 正确答案：O
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答案： 正确答案：M
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答案： 正确答案：I
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答案： 正确答案：H
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答案： 正确答案：D
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答案： 正确答案：G
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答案： 正确答案：B
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答案： 正确答案：F
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A. what B. deserve C. turning into D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asia’s belief【C1】______ its horn has some kind of Harry Potter magical power. The beast’s【C2】______ is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The world’s thinkers are now also a gravely【C3】______ species. And yet,【C4】______ the conceited creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also【C5】______ disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to【C6】______ the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are【C7】______ book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who【C8】______ to see an investment return in the form of increased living【C9】______ and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unconvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 【C10】______ that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.【C4】
答案： 正确答案：D
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A. decreasing B. underlines C. delivered D. missions E. because F. put off G. demand H. though I. play J. improving K. transferred L. careers M. tackle N. recovers O. partial "Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them", said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their【C1】______ on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness later in life,【C2】______ they lose out on the chance to acquire skills and self-confidence in their formative years. Yet more young people are idle than ever. Depending on how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors【C3】______ a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced【C4】______ for labour, and it is easier to【C5】______ hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets, such as India and Egypt. The most obvious way to【C6】______ this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a【C7】______ answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This【C8】______ the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and【C9】______ education These are familiar prescriptions, but ones that need to be【C10】______ with both a new vigour and a new twist.【C5】
答案： 正确答案：F
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A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultant’s life is tiring. A【C1】______ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily【C2】______ a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job【C3】______"insecure overachievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more【C4】______ jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and【C5】______ allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places【C6】______ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They【C7】______ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system【C8】______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not【C9】______ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,【C10】______ enough sleep.【C4】
答案： 正确答案：J
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A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)【C1】______ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent【C2】______: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will【C3】______. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring【C4】______ change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about【C5】______ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and【C6】______ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another【C7】______ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to【C8】______ their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars【C9】______, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems,【C10】______ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.【C4】
答案： 正确答案：E
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A. decreasing B. underlines C. delivered D. missions E. because F. put off G. demand H. though I. play J. improving K. transferred L. careers M. tackle N. recovers O. partial "Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them", said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their【C1】______ on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness later in life,【C2】______ they lose out on the chance to acquire skills and self-confidence in their formative years. Yet more young people are idle than ever. Depending on how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors【C3】______ a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced【C4】______ for labour, and it is easier to【C5】______ hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets, such as India and Egypt. The most obvious way to【C6】______ this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a【C7】______ answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This【C8】______ the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and【C9】______ education These are familiar prescriptions, but ones that need to be【C10】______ with both a new vigour and a new twist.【C6】
答案： 正确答案：M
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A. what B. deserve C. turning into D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asia’s belief【C1】______ its horn has some kind of Harry Potter magical power. The beast’s【C2】______ is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The world’s thinkers are now also a gravely【C3】______ species. And yet,【C4】______ the conceited creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also【C5】______ disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to【C6】______ the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are【C7】______ book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who【C8】______ to see an investment return in the form of increased living【C9】______ and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unconvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 【C10】______ that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.【C5】
答案： 正确答案：E
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A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultant’s life is tiring. A【C1】______ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily【C2】______ a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job【C3】______"insecure overachievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more【C4】______ jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and【C5】______ allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places【C6】______ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They【C7】______ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system【C8】______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not【C9】______ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,【C10】______ enough sleep.【C5】
答案： 正确答案：C
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A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)【C1】______ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent【C2】______: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will【C3】______. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring【C4】______ change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about【C5】______ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and【C6】______ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another【C7】______ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to【C8】______ their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars【C9】______, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems,【C10】______ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.【C5】
答案： 正确答案：F
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A. what B. deserve C. turning into D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asia’s belief【C1】______ its horn has some kind of Harry Potter magical power. The beast’s【C2】______ is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The world’s thinkers are now also a gravely【C3】______ species. And yet,【C4】______ the conceited creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also【C5】______ disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to【C6】______ the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are【C7】______ book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who【C8】______ to see an investment return in the form of increased living【C9】______ and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unconvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 【C10】______ that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.【C6】
答案： 正确答案：I
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A. decreasing B. underlines C. delivered D. missions E. because F. put off G. demand H. though I. play J. improving K. transferred L. careers M. tackle N. recovers O. partial "Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them", said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their【C1】______ on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness later in life,【C2】______ they lose out on the chance to acquire skills and self-confidence in their formative years. Yet more young people are idle than ever. Depending on how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors【C3】______ a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced【C4】______ for labour, and it is easier to【C5】______ hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets, such as India and Egypt. The most obvious way to【C6】______ this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a【C7】______ answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This【C8】______ the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and【C9】______ education These are familiar prescriptions, but ones that need to be【C10】______ with both a new vigour and a new twist.【C7】
答案： 正确答案：O
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A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultant’s life is tiring. A【C1】______ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily【C2】______ a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job【C3】______"insecure overachievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more【C4】______ jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and【C5】______ allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places【C6】______ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They【C7】______ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system【C8】______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not【C9】______ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,【C10】______ enough sleep.【C6】
答案： 正确答案：N
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A. what B. deserve C. turning into D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asia’s belief【C1】______ its horn has some kind of Harry Potter magical power. The beast’s【C2】______ is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The world’s thinkers are now also a gravely【C3】______ species. And yet,【C4】______ the conceited creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also【C5】______ disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to【C6】______ the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are【C7】______ book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who【C8】______ to see an investment return in the form of increased living【C9】______ and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unconvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 【C10】______ that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.【C7】
答案： 正确答案：C
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A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)【C1】______ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent【C2】______: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will【C3】______. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring【C4】______ change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about【C5】______ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and【C6】______ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another【C7】______ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to【C8】______ their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars【C9】______, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems,【C10】______ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.【C6】
答案： 正确答案：J
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A. decreasing B. underlines C. delivered D. missions E. because F. put off G. demand H. though I. play J. improving K. transferred L. careers M. tackle N. recovers O. partial "Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them", said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their【C1】______ on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness later in life,【C2】______ they lose out on the chance to acquire skills and self-confidence in their formative years. Yet more young people are idle than ever. Depending on how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors【C3】______ a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced【C4】______ for labour, and it is easier to【C5】______ hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets, such as India and Egypt. The most obvious way to【C6】______ this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a【C7】______ answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This【C8】______ the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and【C9】______ education These are familiar prescriptions, but ones that need to be【C10】______ with both a new vigour and a new twist.【C8】
答案： 正确答案：B
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A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultant’s life is tiring. A【C1】______ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily【C2】______ a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job【C3】______"insecure overachievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more【C4】______ jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and【C5】______ allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places【C6】______ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They【C7】______ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system【C8】______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not【C9】______ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,【C10】______ enough sleep.【C7】
答案： 正确答案：H
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A. what B. deserve C. turning into D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asia’s belief【C1】______ its horn has some kind of Harry Potter magical power. The beast’s【C2】______ is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The world’s thinkers are now also a gravely【C3】______ species. And yet,【C4】______ the conceited creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also【C5】______ disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to【C6】______ the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are【C7】______ book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who【C8】______ to see an investment return in the form of increased living【C9】______ and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unconvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 【C10】______ that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.【C8】
答案： 正确答案：B
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A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)【C1】______ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent【C2】______: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will【C3】______. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring【C4】______ change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about【C5】______ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and【C6】______ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another【C7】______ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to【C8】______ their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars【C9】______, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems,【C10】______ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.【C7】
答案： 正确答案：H
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A. decreasing B. underlines C. delivered D. missions E. because F. put off G. demand H. though I. play J. improving K. transferred L. careers M. tackle N. recovers O. partial "Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them", said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their【C1】______ on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness later in life,【C2】______ they lose out on the chance to acquire skills and self-confidence in their formative years. Yet more young people are idle than ever. Depending on how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors【C3】______ a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced【C4】______ for labour, and it is easier to【C5】______ hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets, such as India and Egypt. The most obvious way to【C6】______ this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a【C7】______ answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This【C8】______ the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and【C9】______ education These are familiar prescriptions, but ones that need to be【C10】______ with both a new vigour and a new twist.【C9】
答案： 正确答案：J
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A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultant’s life is tiring. A【C1】______ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily【C2】______ a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job【C3】______"insecure overachievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more【C4】______ jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and【C5】______ allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places【C6】______ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They【C7】______ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system【C8】______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not【C9】______ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,【C10】______ enough sleep.【C8】
答案： 正确答案：F
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A. what B. deserve C. turning into D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asia’s belief【C1】______ its horn has some kind of Harry Potter magical power. The beast’s【C2】______ is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The world’s thinkers are now also a gravely【C3】______ species. And yet,【C4】______ the conceited creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also【C5】______ disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to【C6】______ the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are【C7】______ book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who【C8】______ to see an investment return in the form of increased living【C9】______ and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unconvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 【C10】______ that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.【C9】
答案： 正确答案：J
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A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)【C1】______ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent【C2】______: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will【C3】______. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring【C4】______ change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about【C5】______ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and【C6】______ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another【C7】______ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to【C8】______ their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars【C9】______, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems,【C10】______ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.【C8】
答案： 正确答案：M
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A. decreasing B. underlines C. delivered D. missions E. because F. put off G. demand H. though I. play J. improving K. transferred L. careers M. tackle N. recovers O. partial "Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them", said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their【C1】______ on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness later in life,【C2】______ they lose out on the chance to acquire skills and self-confidence in their formative years. Yet more young people are idle than ever. Depending on how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors【C3】______ a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced【C4】______ for labour, and it is easier to【C5】______ hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets, such as India and Egypt. The most obvious way to【C6】______ this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a【C7】______ answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This【C8】______ the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and【C9】______ education These are familiar prescriptions, but ones that need to be【C10】______ with both a new vigour and a new twist.【C10】
答案： 正确答案：C
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A. what B. deserve C. turning into D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asia’s belief【C1】______ its horn has some kind of Harry Potter magical power. The beast’s【C2】______ is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The world’s thinkers are now also a gravely【C3】______ species. And yet,【C4】______ the conceited creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also【C5】______ disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to【C6】______ the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are【C7】______ book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who【C8】______ to see an investment return in the form of increased living【C9】______ and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unconvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 【C10】______ that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.【C10】
答案： 正确答案：L
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A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultant’s life is tiring. A【C1】______ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily【C2】______ a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job【C3】______"insecure overachievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more【C4】______ jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and【C5】______ allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places【C6】______ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They【C7】______ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system【C8】______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not【C9】______ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,【C10】______ enough sleep.【C9】
答案： 正确答案：E
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A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)【C1】______ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent【C2】______: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will【C3】______. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring【C4】______ change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about【C5】______ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and【C6】______ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another【C7】______ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to【C8】______ their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars【C9】______, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems,【C10】______ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.【C9】
答案： 正确答案：L
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A. ambitious B. appeals to C. contacts D. expect E. easily F. works G. consulting H. recruit I. turns to J. settled K. except L. harshly M. texting N. like O. typical A young consultant’s life is tiring. A【C1】______ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. He can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily【C2】______ a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job【C3】______"insecure overachievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more【C4】______ jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and【C5】______ allow them to slot in several levels above their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places【C6】______ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from it. They【C7】______ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system【C8】______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not【C9】______ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,【C10】______ enough sleep.【C10】
答案： 正确答案：K
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A. marking B. since C. nuisance D. arrive E. profound F. signs G. explosion H. worry I. though J. passing K. decreased L. appeared M. drop off N. survive O. businesses The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)【C1】______ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent【C2】______: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres. Now another revolution on wheels is on the horizon: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will【C3】______. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon longer. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring【C4】______ change. Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about【C5】______ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not rush to get a driving licence and buy their first car, as their parents did. But once they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and【C6】______ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another【C7】______ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities. Yet automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to【C8】______ their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much. All these trends will affect the car business. But when mass-produced cars【C9】______, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be among the winners: besides providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems,【C10】______ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.【C10】
答案： 正确答案：B
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