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] 【C9】

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答案 J

解析通过分析句子结构可知，空格处在本句第二个who引导的定语从句中，修饰先行词poor people。空格前是从句的主语who，后面是名词短语easy access，从句缺少谓语。此外，根据句子时态可知应填入动词的一般现在时形式，且先行词是集合名词people，表示复数，故空格处应填入动词原形。本句提到，批评者认为，电子支付会剥夺穷人的权利，他们________获得银行账户和使用互联网的途径。由此可知，穷人因为无法轻易获得银行账户和使用互联网而不能使用电子支付，因此被剥夺了权利，所以此处应选择含有负面意义的动词，故J)lack“没有，缺乏”为答案。

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