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  3. Cash is unlikely to go away soon. Coins and paper【C1】________remain the most popular ways to pay for things in most countries. B

Cash is unlikely to go away soon. Coins and paper【C1】________remain the most popular ways to pay for things in most countries. B

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问题     Cash is unlikely to go away soon. Coins and paper【C1】________remain the most popular ways to pay for things in most countries. But in the long term, cash appears to be in a【C2】________battle with electronic payment methods.
    There are few corners of the world where electronic【C3】________are not growing faster than cash. But the movement away from cash is happening in very different ways and at【C4】________paces around the world.
    Scandinavian (斯堪的纳维亚的) countries are already well along the road toward【C5】________ societies. Many banks in Sweden no longer have cash on hand, and consumers can make instant transfers directly from their bank accounts.
    In Kenya, the local mobile phone company Safaricom, not the banks or the government, has pushed the envelope. Safaricom created a system, known as M-Pesa, that allows customers to make payments【C6】________from their phones.
    The【C7】________of moving away from cash have been trumpeted (鼓吹) by economists like Kenneth Rogoff, who wrote The Curse of Cash , about how paper money enables【C8】________and tax evasion.
    But the critics of cash have been met by their own critics, who argue that electronic payments can disenfranchise (剥夺某人的权利) poor people who【C9】________easy access to bank accounts and the internet and can make it much easier for governments and corporations to monitor a person’s every step.
    In the end, though, the future of money is less likely to be determined by these arguments than to be【C10】________by the success of technologists making it easier for you to pay for your lunch or morning coffee without pulling out your wallet.
    A) adequately            I) enlightening
    B) benefits              J) lack
    C) cashless              K) losing
    D) crime                 L) shaped
    E) currency              M) transactions
    F) democratic            N) varying
    G) directly              O) witnessed
    H) disadvantages
【C8】
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答案D
解析 空格后是连词and，通过分析句子结构可知，空格处所填词与后面的名词短语tax evasion“逃税”为并列关系，因此空格处应填入名词。本句提到，肯尼思.罗格夫著有《现金的诅咒》一书，这本书是关于纸币如何使________和逃税成为可能。由此可知，空格处所填词应与逃税一样表示不好的行为，备选项中只有D)crime“犯罪，罪行”符合句意，故为答案。
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