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  3. Americans’ pride and faith of their economic system, 【B1】______ that it provides opportunities for all citizens to have good liv

Americans’ pride and faith of their economic system, 【B1】______ that it provides opportunities for all citizens to have good liv

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问题     Americans’ pride and faith of their economic system, 【B1】______ that it provides opportunities for all citizens to have good lives, are 【B2】______ by the 【B3】______ that poverty persists in many parts of country.
    Government anti-poverty efforts have made some progress but have not eradicated the problem.【B4】______, periods of strong economic growth, which bring more jobs and higher wages, have【B5】______poverty but have not【B6】______it entirely.
    The federal government 【B7】______ poverty line as a minimum 【B8】______ of income 【B9】______ for basic maintenance of a family or four. This amount may fluctuated【B10】______the cost of living and the location of the family. In 1998, a family of four with an annual income below $ 16,530 was classified【B11】______living in poverty.
    The percentage of people living below poverty line dropped from 22.4 percent in 1959 to 11.4 percent in 1978. But【B12】______, it has fluctuated in a fairly narrow range. In 1998, it stood at 12.7 percent.
    【B13】______, the overall figures mask much more severe pockets of poverty. In 1998, more than one-quarter of all African-Americans lived in poverty; though【B14】______high, that figure did represent an improvement from 1979 when 31 percentage of blacks were officially classified as poor.
    There are【B15】______estimations on the accuracy of official poverty figures. Some analysts have suggested that the official poverty figures【B16】______the real【B17】______of poverty because they measure only cash income and exclude certain government assistance programs such as Food Stamps. Others point out, however, that these programs【B18】______cover all of a family’s food or health care needs.【B19】______others point out that people at the poverty line sometimes receive cash income from【B20】______work and in the underground sector of economy which is never recorded in official statistics.
【B5】
选项 A、added
B、aggravated
C、reduced
D、abolished
答案C
解析 考查动词辨析。根据语境可知，空格处所填动词应和空前“have made some progress”的意义保持一致，因此首先可以排除added“增加”和aggravated“使加重”。abolished意为“消除，废除”，显然不成立，故答案为C．reduced，意为“减少”。
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