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  3. Remember books? They were those pieces of paper with words printed on them【C1】________in between two, sometimes,【C2】________cove

Remember books? They were those pieces of paper with words printed on them【C1】________in between two, sometimes,【C2】________cove

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问题     Remember books? They were those pieces of paper with words printed on them【C1】________in between two, sometimes,【C2】________covers. People bought them, and people borrowed them, but,【C3】________people used to read them. And then came screens. Six years into the【C4】________rise of mobile, half of American adults own a smartphone; over a third owns a tablet.
    Now, I’m joking about the end of books, but it’s easy and tempting to【C5】________that screens will continue their【C6】________on words and paper-bound books will be at the【C7】________of vanishing. But if you take a hard look at the data, it’s not the end of print. Not by a long shot.
    【C8】________, there hasn’t been a more【C9】________technology for capturing the hopes and the fears of new parents than the tablet. Touchscreens are so easy to【C10】________ that babies can use them and learn at younger ages than we thought possible—or babies can use them and use them and use them and lose out on other skills. We just don’t know what this does【C11】________young brains. All we know is we’re【C12】________a generation that sometimes finds magazines more【C13】________than iPads.
    Parents, of course, can’t not know. Or, if they really can’t, then they don’t want to take any【C14】________. And that’s why it’s not at all【C15】________that the vast, vast【C16】________of parents prefer reading printed books to their young children. Pew Research found that 94 percent of parents think it’s important to read print books to their children.
    Print【C17】________isn’t going away soon.【C18】________more people prefer e-readers, some would still rather read print. Books will become "luxuries". But, of course, the real test will come in the next few years when we see what kids who have been using tablets since before they could walk prefer to read.
    Print is in a long, slow【C19】________that feels like a death spiral, but isn’t quite so. For now, at least, the end of print is a long way off, even if kids these days can’t【C20】________how to turn the page.
【C19】
选项 A、desperation
B、increase
C、decline
D、progress
答案C
解析 该空格所填入的词是that定语从句的先行词，a death spiral即为其形象描述，死亡螺旋应是每况愈下，最终走向消亡。因此C项decline为答案，与空格前的介词in连用，意为“在衰退中”。A项desperation意为“绝望”，用于描述人的情感，而本句主语不是人。B项increase和D项progress分别表示“增加”和“进步”，从全文看，纸质书面临困境，不可能在增加或进步。
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