When we have to talk about something that may be going wrong, where there’s

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问题     When we have to talk about something that may be going wrong, where there’s some trouble brewing (酝酿着), or something that might【B1】______or upset people, we may feel we have to【B2】______ our words carefully. We don’t want to add fuel to the【B3】______.
    You might think that "problem" was quite an【B4】______ word to use in such situations. But【B5】______, it seems, people have begun to find it a little too【B6】______, overstressing the bad side of things. They’ve been looking for an【B7】______way to say "problem".
    Now, where there are matters that need to be【B8】______, they’re often referred to as "issues".【B9】______
    You need to be careful with it, though. It’s not a simple one-for-one substitution.【B10】______
    But you find it in such contexts as "That’s not an issue", or "Do you have issues with that?", or "the issues surrounding nuclear waste management".
    And of course,【B11】______: when the spacecraft Apollo 13 broke down on its way to the Moon in 1970, the crew coolly radioed back to Earth "Houston, we have a problem". [br] 【B7】

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解析 根据空格前面的an和后面的way,可知此处是一个元音开头的形容词,修饰way。alternative“供替代的,选择性的”。
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