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The problem with today’s housing crisis, politically, is that it is just not all that visible. At the end of the Second World Wa

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问题     The problem with today’s housing crisis, politically, is that it is just not all that visible. At the end of the Second World War, families with kids【C1】________into shared houses. In 1946, more than 46,000 families took over military camps, empty hotels and flats. That was a(n)【C2】________housing crisis. Today’s does not come【C3】________: most people still have somewhere to live.
    It is nonetheless【C4】________, and worthy of political attention. But the question of exactly why our expensive homes【C5】________a crisis is more subtly depicted than it can appear. Since 1973 at least, the total number of "dwellings" has climbed far faster than the population. How is this possible,【C6】________that building rates have【C7】________? And doesn’t it mean that there isn’t really a housing crisis?
    First, in the 1960s and 1970s, while councils happily knocked【C8】________new estates, they were also busy pulling down lots of old "【C9】________" houses too. Social housing helped people move from broken old crowded houses into【C10】________new flats or houses, typically with much more【C11】________.
    Meanwhile, new homes were built on green fields. Average household sizes【C12】________dramatically, even as the average house got bigger. Though the housing stock【C13】________by less than the rate of building,【C14】________got a lot more space in which to live.
    In recent decades,【C15】________, everyone has got a lot less space. We have had【C16】________little new building, but【C17】________we have magically created lots of new housing. Essentially, so far, the housing crisis has been【C18】________by subdividing our homes to【C19】________the extra population growth.【C20】________what new homes we do build are the smallest in the developed world.  
【C17】
选项 A、conversely
B、regardless
C、almost
D、somehow
答案D
解析 前半句讲到“我们已建的建筑物……比以前少”，后半句讲到“但是我们……却神奇地建造了很多新住房”。从句意来看，既然建筑物建得比以前少，但又多了新住房．那么这是怎么回事呢，故选D项somehow“不知怎么地”。 A项conversely“相反地”代入空格，也似乎说得通，但是下一句解释了“如何创造新的住房”，somehow“不知怎么地”相比A项能更好地跟下句呼应。B项regardless“不管”和C项almost“几乎”代入文中，句意不通一
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