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问题     The city finally won approval for a limited speed camera program in June after a long battle in Albany, and City Mayor Bloomberg announced on Monday that starting Sept. 9, the city will【C1】______ 20 cameras in school zones around the city, despite【C2】______ from police unions to the pilot program.   
    Officials won’t【C3】______ where exactly the cameras will go—hoping to maximize the warning effect on speeding from the cameras—and plan to move them around【C4】______ between different schools. But they’ve【C5】______ 100 schools in all five boroughs where at least 75% of cars speed and plan to target the schools with the worst speeding problems.
    The cameras, which will be【C6】______ to drivers, will catch motorists going at least 10 miles an hour over the speed limit. Drivers will be hit with $50 fines, though officials will give out warnings for the first few weeks of the program.
    Statistics show a child hit by a car going 40 miles per hour faces a 70% chance of being killed, while a kid hit at 30 miles per hour has an 80% chance of【C7】______ "Speeding continues to be the【C8】______ killer on the streets of New York," said Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. "It is【C9】______ that New York City’s speed limit is 30 miles an hour. Going even ten miles over the speed limit is the difference between life and death."
    Bloomberg said he’d prefer a less【C10】______ speed camera program and hope to expand it soon. "We’d like to have more than twenty, but we’re glad to start with what we have," he said.
A) identified B) install C) disclose D) mission
E) leading F) objection G) surviving H) restricted
I) affiliate J) invisible K) simultaneously L) frequently
M) stake N) miserable O) sensible [br] 【C2】
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答案 F
解析 despite是介词，因此空格应为名词。despite表示让步，前后语义形成对比，空格应选用objection，意为“尽管警察工会反对”，市政府仍然获得了安装超速摄像头的许可。
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