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  3. How do you explain economics in plain English? The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been answering the question with an even

How do you explain economics in plain English? The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been answering the question with an even

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问题     How do you explain economics in plain English? The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been answering the question with an even more【C1】________tool: comic books. And it’s been doing that for【C2】________.
    The New York Fed has published comics about money and finance for【C3】________readers more interested in【C4】________since 1950s, according to Edward Steinberg, a former Fed employee who【C5】________several of the comic books【C6】________online today. In the latest ten years, Steinberg supervised a small team of writers and editors that produced the Fed’s print publications and educational【C7】________. such as the comic books.
    Distributed free of charge to teachers, the comics were mostly【C8】________high school students, whom Steinberg felt weren’t learning enough about the economy and personal finance,【C9】________some of the more advanced titles, such as The Story of Monetary Policy, have been taught in several college classrooms.
    It’s no【C10】________that the comic books offer highly simplified opinions on the country’s complex financial systems, but they go out of their way to【C11】________dumbing down the content. Most of the booklets are more than 20 pages, and they’re packed with【C12】________and details that could【C13】________a teenager on a first read: The Story of the Federal Reserve System from 1999 starts off slow by comparing and contrasting the Fed with local neighborhood banks, but it soon【C14】________into specific information about monetary policy, open market operations, government securities, and reserve requirements. With guest【C15】________from Uncle Sam and a walking, talking bank, A Penny Saved offers a crash course in saving before touching【C16】________the advantages and disadvantages of【C17】________in the stock market, real estate, and fine art.
    But the【C18】________part of the series might be the fact that Steinberg doesn’t even like comics. "【C19】________ the work that I did at the Fed, I don’t have an interest in comic books," Steinberg says over email. "It was appropriate,【C20】________, that I had a job writing comic books, because everybody can try to earn his living through humor."
【C18】
选项 A、greatest
B、happiest
C、funniest
D、hardest
答案C
解析 空格后的part实际上指的是斯坦伯格并不喜欢漫画这一事实这个部分，故所需的形容词应能体现这一情况。文章第二段提到Steinberg“曾指导出版漫画书”，因此可认为Steinberg“不喜欢漫画书”(却写漫画书)这一事实让人觉得很可笑。C现funniest“最滑稽的”，符合语义要求。“斯坦伯格并不喜欢漫画”这一事实不是“最伟大的”(A项greatest)，也不是“最开心的”(B项happiest)，也无法根据语境来判断它是否为“最困难的”(D项hardest)。
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