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  3. Cash is unlikely to go away soon. Coins and paper【C1】________remain the most

Cash is unlikely to go away soon. Coins and paper【C1】________remain the most

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问题     Cash is unlikely to go away soon. Coins and paper【C1】________remain the most popular ways to pay for things in most countries. But in the long term, cash appears to be in a【C2】________battle with electronic payment methods.
    There are few corners of the world where electronic【C3】________are not growing faster than cash. But the movement away from cash is happening in very different ways and at【C4】________paces around the world.
    Scandinavian (斯堪的纳维亚的) countries are already well along the road toward【C5】________societies. Many banks in Sweden no longer have cash on hand, and consumers can make instant transfers directly from their bank accounts.
    In Kenya, the local mobile phone company Safaricom, not the banks or the government, has pushed the envelope.  Safaricom created a system, known as M-Pesa, that allows customers to make payments【C6】________from their phones.
    The【C7】________of moving away from cash have been trumpeted (鼓吹) by economists like Kenneth Rogoff, who wrote The Curse of Cash, about how paper money enables【C8】________and tax evasion.
    But the critics of cash have been met by their own critics, who argue that electronic payments can disenfranchise (剥夺某人的权利) poor people who【C9】________easy access to bank accounts and the internet and can make it much easier for governments and corporations to monitor a person’s every step.
    In the end, though, the future of money is less likely to be determined by these arguments than to be【C10】________by the success of technologists making it easier for you to pay for your lunch or morning coffee without pulling out your wallet.
A) adequately                 I) enlightening
B) benefits                   J) lack
C) cashless                   K) losing
D) crime                      L) shaped
E) currency                   M) transactions
F) democratic                 N) varying
G) directly                   O) witnessed
H) disadvantages [br] 【C6】
选项
答案 G
解析 空格前是动词短语make payments，后面为介词短语from their phones，句子结构完整，因此空格处应填入副词。该段在讲述肯尼亚电子交易的发展，前一句提到在肯尼亚，推动这项新技术的是当地移动电话公司Safaricom，而非银行或政府。接下来本句指出该公司创建了一个名为M-Pesa的系统，可以让顾客用手机支付。由此可知，M-Pesa系统就是电子交易系统，故此处应填入一个表示“方便、快捷”含义的副词，所以G)directly“直接地”为答案。
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