2. 外语
  3. When we have to talk about something that may be going wrong, where there’s some trouble brewing (酝酿着), or something that might【

When we have to talk about something that may be going wrong, where there’s some trouble brewing (酝酿着), or something that might【

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问题     When we have to talk about something that may be going wrong, where there’s some trouble brewing (酝酿着), or something that might【B1】______or upset people, we may feel we have to【B2】______ our words carefully. We don’t want to add fuel to the【B3】______.
    You might think that "problem" was quite an【B4】______ word to use in such situations. But【B5】______, it seems, people have begun to find it a little too【B6】______, overstressing the bad side of things. They’ve been looking for an【B7】______way to say "problem".
    Now, where there are matters that need to be【B8】______, they’re often referred to as "issues".【B9】______
    You need to be careful with it, though. It’s not a simple one-for-one substitution.【B10】______
    But you find it in such contexts as "That’s not an issue", or "Do you have issues with that?", or "the issues surrounding nuclear waste management".
    And of course,【B11】______: when the spacecraft Apollo 13 broke down on its way to the Moon in 1970, the crew coolly radioed back to Earth "Houston, we have a problem".
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答案alternative
解析 根据空格前面的an和后面的way，可知此处是一个元音开头的形容词，修饰way。alternative“供替代的，选择性的”。
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