They drive hybrid cars, if they drive at all, shop at local stores, if they

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问题     They drive hybrid cars, if they drive at all, shop at local stores, if they shop at all and pay off their credit cards every month, if they use them at all.
    They may have【C1】______income, but they live below their means, in a conscious effort to tread【C2】______on the earth.
    They are a new breed of "generation" , Young and Wealthy but Normal, or Yawns.
    The acronym(首字母缩略词)comes from The Sunday Telegraph of London, which noted that an increasing number of rich young Britons are【C3】______aware, concerned about the environment and given less to【C4】______than to giving money to charity.
    Yawns sound dull, but they are the new movers and shakers, their【C5】______big and bold. They are men and women in their 20s, 30s and 40s who want nothing less than to【C6】______the world and save the planet.
    Take Sean Blagsvedt, who【C7】______from Seattle to India in 2004 to help build the local office of Microsoft Research. Moved by young children begging on the streets, Blagsvedt quit Microsoft and【C8】______two networking sites, babajob. com and babalife. com, to link India’s vast pool of【C9】______workers with the people who need labor. The larger goal—to reduce【C10】______.
    The high-tech world has produced some Yawns, but more and more are appearing in every walk of life. In fact, Yawns are a subset of a growing global movement of the eco-socially aware.
A)change
B)consciously
C)consuming
D)crucial
E)desires
F)disposable
G)dreams  
H)launched
I)lightly
J)moved
K)overturn
L)potential
M)poverty
N)socially
O)tracked [br] 【C10】

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答案 M

解析 空格位于动词后面,基本可断定应填入名词作reduce的宾语。因上文提到,Blagsv—edt受街上乞讨儿童的触动,开设了两家网站帮助待岗工人找工作,可以推断:这样做的更大目标是减少贫困,故空格中应填入poverty“贫困”。
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