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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.
【B8】
选项 A、believed
B、excelled
C、reported
D、insisted
答案A
解析 考查动词辨析。根据上下文语义可知此处在讲英国各地受访的公司对外语技能的看法。A．believed“相信，认为，以为”代入句中，符合题意，故A项为正确答案。excel“优于，擅长”，report“报道”，insist“坚持”，均不符合题意，故排除。
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