A. confidently B. delay C. exceeds D. excels E. fertile F. f

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问题    A. confidently  B. delay       C. exceeds    D. excels     E. fertile
   F. fulfilled    G. independently    H. numerous   I. persists    J. prominent
   K. proper    L. responsibility    M. uncountable  N. versatile    O. victims
   Children are in need of adoption because some birth parents are unable or unavailable to provide adequately for the needs of their child. There are 【C1】______ reasons for making an adoption plan. Birth parents may feel they cannot take on the 【C2】______ of an unplanned child because they are too young or because they are financially or emotionally unable to provide 【C3】______ care. They do not feel ready or able to be good parents.
   In other cases children are in need of adoption because courts have decided that their birth parents are unable to function adequately. Many of these children are 【C4】______ of abuse or neglect. Regardless of how children come to need adoption, they are put with adoptive parents through private or public social service agencies. Other adoptions may be arranged 【C5】______, as when birth parents and adoptive parents come to know each other outside of an agency and then complete the adoption according to the laws and regulations of their states of residence.
   In the early 1970s there was a dramatic increase in the number of families seeking to adopt, a condition which 【C6】______today. For this reason, the number of those who wish to adopt regularly  【C7】______ the number of infants available. Reasons for this dramatic increase are varied. A major factor has been the choice of many people to 【C8】______ the start of a family until later in life. Many of these people, in turn, have found themselves to be less 【C9】______ at that time, so they have decided that their desire to have children might best be 【C10】______ through adoption. [br] 【C7】

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答案 C

解析 空格所在主句缺少谓语,主语为the number of those,故空格填入动词的第三人称单数形式。this reason指上一句提到的“意欲收养孩子的家庭数量激增”,由此可推知想要收养孩子的家庭多,而可被收养的婴儿少。词库中exceeds可表示在数量上“超过”,符合语义,故选C。excel一般指在某方面超过他人,因此排除。
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