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  3. Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a million IBM stockholders last week took a nightmare ride on a sto

Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a million IBM stockholders last week took a nightmare ride on a sto

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问题     Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a
million IBM stockholders last week took a nightmare ride on a stock
they had long trusted. IBM had been sliding all year,  recent hitting【S1】________
10-year lows. But after the company announced Tuesday that it would,
among other things, slash another 25,000 jobs, the stock took a historic
rise.  In 48 hours, it lost 11 points, or almost 18 percent of its value,【S2】________
closing Wednesday at 517/s. On Friday it hit other new low. Big Board【S3】________
officials camped out on the exchange floor to prevent chaotic, and【S4】________
brokers fielded frantic calls from investors in various stages of disbelief
and agony. "They’re screaming and hollering," said Carol Komskis of
York Securities. "They are saying, ’Things like this just don’t happen
in America. ’ " Even worse news could come: IBM warned that it may
have to cut its dividend.
    Stock prices that rise and fall are anything new; that’s what makes a【S5】________
market.  But Big Blue had always epitomized the blue-chip stock that
you could count on to send the kids to college or help you retire in the【S6】________
style.  Some investors may be in blissful ignorant; pension funds across【S7】________
the  country  are  heavily  investing  in IBM.  ( The  New York  state【S8】________
employee pension funds lonely hold 3. 6 million shares. ) But the charm【S9】________
of stocks such as IBM, General Motors and Westinghouse was that you
could feel secure in buying them even you did not know " earnings"【S10】________
from your elbow. Such stock made generations of Americans faithful
capitalists. "This was the kind of stock that created wealth for a lot of
people in this country," says Jonathan Pond, a Boston-based financial
counselor and author.
【S9】
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答案lonely—alone
解析 词义混淆。lonely表示“孤独的，寂寞的”，而alone表示“独自”。这里说“仅仅是纽约州的员工养老基金就持有360万股份。”因此这里表示“独自”，应该使用alone。
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