Market【C1】______ do not come naturally to Chinese officials. For the past fo

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问题    Market【C1】______ do not come naturally to Chinese officials. For the past four years two huge diversion【C2】______ have been under way to bring water from the Yangzi River basin to northern China. Work on a more technologically challenging third  route,  involving  blasting through mountains to  link the Yangzi’s upper【C3】______ to the Yellow River, is expected to begin around 2010. The proposal castigated by the water minister, Wang Shucheng, on October 24th was even more grandiose.  It would【C4】______ the link to the Yalu Zangbu river, as the upper reaches of India’s Brahmaputra river are known in China. Mr Wang described this as "unnecessary, unfeasible and unscientific" (while stressing that this was his "academic" opinion). India must be relieved.
Meanwhile, China has been【C5】______ to impose tougher penalties on water polluters or higher【C6】______ on consumers. It fears that higher prices would drive industries away from the north and make it more difficult for struggling state- owned【C7】______ to turn a profit.  It also worries about angering household consumers, particularly in the【C8】______ . According to a government【C9】______ ,water prices in 36 big cities have risen an average of 10% annually for the past three years (Beijing’s have risen 30-fold in the past 14 years). But in August a government think-tank said prices remained only about a third of the world【C10】______ . It called for price reforms to be speeded up. On October 20th Beijing published a five-year plan for economic and bureaucratic reforms in the capital. This called for water prices to reflect supply and the cost of delivery by 2010. The national government said earlier this year that it aimed to cut water consumption per unit of GDP by 30% in the same period.
A) average                         I) reaches
B) countryside                      J) reluctant
C) enterprises                      K) river
D) extend                         L) solutions
E) forces                         M) survey
F) get                            N) tariffs
G) level                            O) tough
H) projects [br] 【C3】

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