There is growing interest in East Japan Railway Co., one of the six companies, created out of the (1)_____ national railway syst

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问题     There is growing interest in East Japan Railway Co., one of the six companies, created out of the (1)_____ national railway system. In an industry lacking exciting growth (2)_____, its plan to use real-estate assets in and around train stations (3)_____ is drawing interest.
    In a plan dubbed "Station Renaissance" that it (4)_____ in November, JR East said that it would (5)_____ using its commercial spaces for shops and restaurants, extending them to (6)_____ more suitable for the information age. It wants train stations as pick-up (7)_____ for such goods, as books, flowers and groceries purchased (8)_____ the Internet. In a country (9)_____ urbanites depend heavily on trains (10)_____ commuting, about 16 million people a day go to its train stations anyway, the company (11)_____. So, picking up purchases at train stations spare (12)_____ extra travel and missed home deliveries.
    JR East already has been using its station (13)_____ stores for this purpose, but it plans to create (14)_____ spaces for the delivery of Internet goods.
    The company also plans to introduce (15)_____ cards—known in Japan as IC cards because they use integrated (16)_____ for holding information—(17)_____ train tickets and commuter passes (18)_____ the magnetic ones used today, integrating them into a single pass. This will save the company money, because (19)_____ for IC cards are much less expensive than magnetic systems. Increased use of IC cards should also (20)_____ the space needed for ticket vending.


选项 A、shrink
B、narrow
C、descend
D、reduce

答案D

解析 本题考查动词词义的辨析。填入的动词,表达Increased use of IC cards(对IC卡使用的增加)对the space needed for ticket vending(售票需要的空间)的影响。根据上文可知,IC卡的使用替代了传统的车票和定期券,因此空格所在句子的含义是:IC卡使用的增加减少了售票所占的空间。关键看四个选项哪个与space搭配,符合文意。reduce(减少,缩小),用法较为广泛,除表示数量、大小、价格等的减少外,还可以接表抽象含义的词,原文意为:对IC卡使用的增加将会减少售票占用的空间。所以为正确选项。shrink(使事物本身缩小或萎缩);narrow(使变狭窄,使缩小)与space搭配,指"使空间变得狭小",有"拥挤"的含义;descend(下来,下降)均不符合文意。
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