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  3. Stop worrying about recession. That is the message from America’s R-word index. For each quarter, we (1)_____ how many stones in

Stop worrying about recession. That is the message from America’s R-word index. For each quarter, we (1)_____ how many stones in

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问题     Stop worrying about recession. That is the message from America’s R-word index. For each quarter, we (1)_____ how many stones in the New York Times and the Washington Post include the word "recession". (2)_____ bells were set (3)_____ by the sharp jump in the "R-count" in the first quarter of this year. at a rate that in the past has (4)_____ the start of a recession. In the second quarter. (5)_____. the number of articles (6)_____ by more than one-third. A conspiracy theorist might suggest that newspaper editors, (7)_____ about dwindling advertising revenues, have (8)_____ the R-word.
    The Economist has found that (9)_____ the past two decades, the R-word index has been good at (10)_____ mining-points in the American economy. (11)_____ GDP figures which appear (12)_____ after a lag, the numbers are instantly available. But how does the index perform in Germany, (13)_____ there have also been (14)_____ fears of recession? Using our idea, Hypo Vereins bank has (15)_____ an R-word index for Germany, counting the number of times the word recession (16)_____ in Handelsblatt.
    Worryingly, Germany’s R-count for the first quarter of 2001 showed the second-steepest (17)_____ in the past two decades. But in the second quarter, the index dropped by one-third, (18)_____ in America (19)_____ the world economy has nothing to worry about, or journalists are more worded about a (20)_____ than a mere recession. A R-word index?

选项 A、reduced
B、fell
C、drop
D、descended
答案B
解析 本题测试点为动词词义辨析。四个选项都有"下降"的意思，但表示"数字减少"时一般用fall。
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