ID：9121-12797（本题为引用材料试题，请根据材料回答以下问题）
The author of the passage is primarily concerned with ______.
A. revealing a commonly ignored deficiency
B. proposing a return to traditional method
C. describing an attempt to correct a shortcoming
D. assessing the success of a new pedagogical approach
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ID：9121-11842
A transformation is occurring that should greatly __1__ living standards in the developing world. Places that __2__ recently were deaf and dumb are rapidly acquiring __3__ telecommunications. Many developing countries are planning to invest vast sums of money __4__ their telecommunications networks to allow them to __5__ with developed countries. They believe this will __6__ foreign and domestic investment. However, how fast these nations should push __7__ is a matter of debate. And some developing countries __8__ experience in weighing costs and choosing between technologies. Vietnam, __9__ particular, though desperate for any phones, requires that all mobile phones be expensive digital models. Still, there is __10__ dispute that communications will be a key factor __11__ the winners from the losers. Over the next decade, China plans to pour some $100 billion into telecommunications equipment. Telecommunications is also a key __12__ Shanghai’s ambition of becoming a top financial center. Shanghai plans to be as electronically advanced __13__ New York. __14__, some other developing countries and areas such as Hungary, Latin America, and Thailand are all hoping to jump into the modern world __15__ means of telecommunication revolution. For countries that have lagged __16__ for so long, the temptation to move ahead in one jump is hard to __17__. And __18__ the mistakes they’ll make, they’ll persist ―__19__ day they can cruise alongside Americans and Western Europeans __20__ the information superhighway.
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A Therefore
B Consequently
C Meanwhile
D Instead
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ID：9121-12286
If you don’t like to swim, you _____ as well stay at home.
A. should B. may C. can D. would
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ID：9121-13139
There was quite a _________ crowd at the match on Saturday. It must have been an exciting match. A) respectful B) respective C) respectable D) respecting
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ID：9121-13170
Why does the author say he suffers too?
A) Because he is homeless.
B) Because he is ill.
C) Because he cannot alleviate all the evil that he hates.
D) Because he does not have enough money to support the poor.
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