Cash is unlikely to go away soon. Coins and paper【C1】________remain the most

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问题    Cash is unlikely to go away soon. Coins and paper【C1】________remain the most popular ways to pay for things in most countries. But in the long term, cash appears to be in a【C2】________battle with electronic payment methods.
There are few corners of the world where electronic【C3】________are not growing faster than cash. But the movement away from cash is happening in very different ways and at【C4】________paces around the world.
Scandinavian (斯堪的纳维亚的) countries are already well along the road toward【C5】________societies. Many banks in Sweden no longer have cash on hand, and consumers can make instant transfers directly from their bank accounts.
In Kenya, the local mobile phone company Safaricom, not the banks or the government, has pushed the envelope.  Safaricom created a system, known as M-Pesa, that allows customers to make payments【C6】________from their phones.
The【C7】________of moving away from cash have been trumpeted (鼓吹) by economists like Kenneth Rogoff, who wrote The Curse of Cash, about how paper money enables【C8】________and tax evasion.
But the critics of cash have been met by their own critics, who argue that electronic payments can disenfranchise (剥夺某人的权利) poor people who【C9】________easy access to bank accounts and the internet and can make it much easier for governments and corporations to monitor a person’s every step.
In the end, though, the future of money is less likely to be determined by these arguments than to be【C10】________by the success of technologists making it easier for you to pay for your lunch or morning coffee without pulling out your wallet.
A) adequately                I) enlightening
B) benefits                J) lack
C) cashless                K) losing
D) crime                   L) shaped
E) currency                M) transactions
F) democratic                N) varying
G) directly                O) witnessed
H) disadvantages [br] 【C10】

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答案 L

解析空格前是to be，后面是by the success of technologists，通过分析句子结构可知，than前是不定式的被动语态to be determined by these arguments，than对比的前后两个结构应该相似，因此空格处应填入动词的过去分词。本句提到，不过最终，金钱的未来不太可能由这些争论决定，而更可能由技术人员的成功所________。由此可知，本句把决定金钱未来的两样事物进行对比，故此处应选择与“决定”意义相近的动词，所以L)shaped“决定(某事物的发展等)”为答案。

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