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问题     Immigrants to the UK are being tested on their English skills before being able to claim income-related benefits under a new scheme. People are being asked what efforts they have made to find work before coming to Britain.
    Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said people should not be able to " take 【C1】______" of British benefits. Labor supports English tests【C2】______ says ministers are ignoring the exploitation of low-skilled migrant workers.
    Job centers in England, Scotland and Wales began using the "more robust" language tests on Monday and they are being【C3】______ to all centers. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)said the test would【C4】______ " only migrants who have a legal right to be in Britain and plan to【C5】______to this country can make a claim【C6】______benefits". "For the first time, migrants will be quizzed about what efforts they have made to find work before coming to the UK and whether their English language skills will be a 【C7】______to them finding employment," the DWP said in a【C8】______. DWP sources said the tests【C9】______ everyone whether he is a migrant or not.
    Income-related benefits【C10】______council tax benefit, housing benefit, income-based jobseeker’s allowance and pension【C11】______. Mr. Duncan Smith said British people were " rightly 【C12】______" that migrants should contribute to the economy and should not be " drawn here by the 【C13】______of our benefits system".
    " It is【C14】______important that we have strict rules in【C15】______to protect the integrity of our benefits system," he said.
    He said the new test would help create a 【C16】______system which provided for "genuine" workers and jobseekers but "does not【C17】______ people to come to our country and take advantage". To【C18】______the benefits, migrants will have to pass a "habitual【C19】______test" including more than 100【C20】______questions compared to now. [br] 【C10】

选项 A、include
B、exclude
C、compose
D、constitute

答案 A

解析 动词辨析题。该句的主语是“与收入相关的福利”。宾语列举了四项福利:地方政府税津贴、住房津贴、求职津贴以及养老金补贴,表明两者之间是包含与被包含的关系,[A]include意为“包含,包括”,与原文意思相符,故[C]为正确答案。[B]exclude的意思是“把……排除在外”,与原文意思相反,故排除;[C]compose和[D]constitute都有“组成,构成”之意,但是指部分构成整体,而该句是指整体包含部分,与句意不符,故排除。
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