Last year French drivers killed【1】than 5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely【2】the 1,000

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问题     Last year French drivers killed【1】than 5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely【2】the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on the nation’s highways since 2003, which experts reckon【3】3,000 lives last year. Success of course breeds success: the government plants to install 500【4】radar devices this year.
    So it goes with surveillance these days. Europeans used to look at the security cameras posted in British cities, subways and buses【5】the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in Continental Europe. But last year’s London bombing, in which video cameras【6】a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped spur a sea change. A month【7】the London attacks, half of Germans supported EU-wide plans to require Internet providers and telecoms to store all e-mail, internet and phone data for "anti-terror"【8】. In a British poll, 73 percent of respondents said they were【9】to give up some civil liberty to improve【10】.

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答案fewer

解析 从整篇文章来看主要讲的是安装雷达系统增强了社会安全性,减少了车祸的发生。本句话的意思是说“去年法国司机驾驶中造成的死亡人数在过去的数十年中第一次少于5 000人”。要表示“低于,少于”的意思用“fewer”切合题意。
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