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  3. Virtually every activity that entails or facilitates in-person human interact

Virtually every activity that entails or facilitates in-person human interact

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问题    Virtually every activity that entails or facilitates in-person human interaction seems to be in the midst of a total meltdown as the coronavirus (冠状病毒) outbreak erases Americans’ desire to travel. Amtrak says bookings are down 50 precent and cancelations are up 300 percent. Hotels in San Francisco are experiencing【C1】______rates between 70 and 80 percent. Broadway goes dark on Thursday night. Universities, now emptying their campuses, have never tried online learning on this【C2】______.White-collar companies like Amazon, Apple, and the New York Times are asking employees to work from home for the【C3】______future.
   But what happens after the coronavirus?
   In some ways, the answer is: All the old normal stuff. The pandemic (大流行病) will take lives,【C4】______economies and destroy routines, but it will pass. Americans will never stop going to basketball games. They won’t stop going on vacation. They’ll meet to do business. No decentralizing technology so far—not telephones, not television, and not the internet—has dented that human desire to shake hands, despite technologists’【C5】______to the contrary.
   Yet there are real reasons to think that things will not return to the way they were last week. Small【C6】______create small societal shifts; big ones change things for good. The New York transit strike of 1980 is【C7】______with prompting several long-term changes in the city, including bus and bike lanes, and women wearing sports shoes to work. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 prompted the development of national health care in Europe.
   Here and now, this might not even be a question of【C8】______It’s not clear that the cruise industry will【C9】______Or that public transit won’t go broke without【C10】______assistance. The infrastructure might not even be in place to do what we were doing in 2019.
   A) credentials F) foreseeable K) subtle
   B) credited G) predictions L) summoned
   C) cumulative H) preference M) survive
   D) disruptions I) scale N) vacancy
   E) federal J) strangle O) wedge [br] 【C4】
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答案 J
解析 [语法判断]根据空格前后的并列动词短语take lives和destroy routines可知，空格处应填入一个动词原形，与后面的economies构成一个动宾短语。[语义判断]空格所在句描述的是此次病毒对社会造成的危害。由take lives“夺走生命”和destroy routines“破坏常规”可知，空格处应填入表示“对经济造成负面影响”的词。动词原形中只有strangle具有贬义色彩，由此确定J)strangle“扼杀，限制……的发展”为本题答案。
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