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The Miss America celebration【C1】______as a beauty contest in 1921, but now prefers to avoid such【C2】______since beauty is no lon
The Miss America celebration【C1】______as a beauty contest in 1921, but now prefers to avoid such【C2】______since beauty is no lon
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The Miss America celebration【C1】______as a beauty contest in 1921, but now prefers to avoid such【C2】______since beauty is no longer the primary【C3】______used to judge contestants. Each year in September, the celebration was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey,【C4】______for the year 2000, when it was held on October 14. In January 2006 the celebration moved to its new home and time in Las Vegas, Nevada. The celebration【C5】______itself as a "scholarship celebration ", and the【C6】______prizes for the winner and her runners-up are scholarships to the institution of her choice. The Miss America Scholarship program, along with its local and state programs,【C7】______to be the largest provider of scholarship money to young women in the world, and in 2006 made【C8】______more than $ 45 million in cash and scholarship【C9】______Since most of the contestants are college graduates already, or on the【C10】______of graduating, most of their prize money is【C11】______to graduate school or professional school, or to pay【C12】______student loans for courses already taken. The event has long【C13】______criticism mainly because that it degrades woman and implies beauty is a principle【C14】______for females. The first protests【C15】______the Miss America celebration were held at Atlantic City in 1968, when the televised【C16】______was disrupted by a group of protesters. Many people,【C17】______feminists, still object【C18】______the Miss America celebration as "forcing monolithic, racist, often【C19】______standard of beauty into the nation’s【C20】______."
【C12】
选项
A、out
B、off
C、up
D、back
答案
B
解析
固定搭配题。句意同上。pay off意为“还清,付清”,pay back“回报,偿还”,因为奖学金数额较大,所以选择pay off更符合句意。pay不与out或up搭配,可以排除。
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