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  3. Americans’ pride and faith of their economic system, 【C1】______ that it provides opportunities for all citizens to have good liv

Americans’ pride and faith of their economic system, 【C1】______ 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, 【C1】______ that it provides opportunities for all citizens to have good lives, are 【C2】______ by the 【C3】______ that poverty persists in many parts of country.
    Government anti-poverty efforts have made some progress but have not eradicated the problem.【C4】______, periods of strong economic growth, which bring more jobs and higher wages, have【C5】______poverty but have not【C6】______it entirely.
    The federal government 【C7】______ poverty line as a minimum 【C8】______ of income 【C9】______ for basic maintenance of a family or four. This amount may fluctuated【C10】______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【C11】______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【C12】______, it has fluctuated in a fairly narrow range. In 1998, it stood at 12.7 percent.
    【C13】______, the overall figures mask much more severe pockets of poverty. In 1998, more than one-quarter of all African-Americans lived in poverty; though【C14】______high, that figure did represent an improvement from 1979 when 31 percentage of blacks were officially classified as poor.
    There are【C15】______estimations on the accuracy of official poverty figures. Some analysts have suggested that the official poverty figures【C16】______the real【C17】______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【C18】______cover all of a family’s food or health care needs.【C19】______others point out that people at the poverty line sometimes receive cash income from【C20】______work and in the underground sector of economy which is never recorded in official statistics.
【C17】
选项 A、extent
B、extension
C、range
D、situation
答案A
解析 考查名词辨析。extent意为“范围，广度，程度”，extension“延长，扩充，范围”；range“范围，行列”：situation“情形，境遇”。空格处所在句意为：一些分析人士认为官方贫困数字——过分陈述了真实的贫困______。根据语境可知，此处强调的是“程度”，而非“范围”或是“情形”，故答案为A．extent。
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