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Nearly two-thirds of businesses in the UK want to recruit staff with foreign language skills. French is still the most highly pr

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问题     Nearly two-thirds of businesses in the UK want to recruit staff with foreign language skills. French is still the most highly prized language, but Spanish and Mandarin speakers are more 【B1】______ demand than in the past.
    Katja Hall, deputy director-general of Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said that,【B2】______the EU was the UK’s largest export market, it was no surprise to see European languages so【B3】______valued. "【B4】______ with China and Latin America seeing solid growth, ambitious firms want the language skills that can【B5】______the path into new markets," she said.
    The 2014 annual education and skills survey by the CBI and Pearson, the educational【B6】______that owns the Financial Times, 【B7】______ that 41 percent of the 291 companies surveyed across the UK【B8】______knowledge of a foreign language was 【B9】______ to their business. European languages—French, German and Spanish—still 【B10】______ the list in terms of desirability, but these were closely【B11】______by Mandarin and Arabic.
    Ms Hall said it was【B12】______whether recent government initiatives to encourage language learning in schools would have any【B13】______. "It has been a【B14】______to see foreign language study in our schools under pressure with one in five schools having a【B15】______low take-up of languages," she said. "Young people【B16】______their future subject choices should be made more【B17】______of the benefits to their careers that can【B18】______from studying a foreign language."
    The number of students studying foreign languages has 【B19】______ in the past decade. In January, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills said the number of "skills shortage vacancies" had risen from 16 per cent of all 【B20】______ in 2009 to 22 per cent in 2013.
【B19】
选项 A、fluctuated
B、floated
C、slumped
D、jumped
答案C
解析 考查动词辨析。此处句意为“学习外语的学生数量在过去十年间______”。C．slumped“大幅度下降，暴跌”，符合题意，为正确答案。fluctuate“波动，涨落”，float“漂动，漂浮”，jump“暴涨，猛增”，均不符合题意，故排除。
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