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下列短文中每个空格有A，B，C，D四个选项，根据上下文选择一个最佳答案。
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When Chico Max decided to mount an exhibition of photographs of recent immigrants to Brazil, he had a harder time finding subjects than he expected. That is___1_____just 600,000 of the 204 m people living in the country are foreign-born. The small pool of potential sitters surprised Mr. Max. ____2____everyone in Brazil is descended from immigrants or African slaves; only the United States has a bigger non-indigenous population. The country’s president is the daughter of a Bulgarian; the vice-president has a road ___3_____ him in Lebanon. All of Mr. Max’s grandparents came from Portugal between the two world wars. As the title of his show this month in Sao Paulo proclaimed，“We are all____4____”.
Yet Brazil’s foreign-born population ____5____ at 73% of the total at the start of the 20th ce
ntury and has been dwindling ever since. It is now a fifth of Latin America’s low average and a fraction of that in melting pots like the United States. That is a ____6____.  Brazil needs millions of well-qualified workers____7____ its mediocre schools are not providing them. ____8____ more immigration, analysts warn, Brazil faces a “skills blackout”.
Some of the reasons for which migrants shun Brazil are obvious. It is not a rich country. Its language, Portuguese, is not widely spoken elsewhere. Yet Argentina, with a fifth of Brazil’s population and an equally troubled____9____, attracts more than double the number of  newcomers — about 280,000 people a year, mostly poor laborers from other Spanish-speaking countries. They could easily master enough____10___to work in Brazil, although they would securingnot solve the skills shortage.
They do not come because Brazil needlessly ____11____ additional roadblocks. Its legislation on immigration is “anachronistic (不合时代的)”，admits BetoVasconcelos, who handles the issues at the justice ministry in Brasilia. The main law dealing with immigration, enacted by generals who ruled from 1964 to 1985, _____12___ foreigners a
s a menace to national security and to Brazilian workers. It ____13____ non-Brazilians from taking part in political rallies, owning stakes in newspapers or participating actively in trade unions.
It also imposes cumbersome (麻烦的)conditions on foreign workers. Securing a work permit can ___14_____ months and cost thousands of dollars in legal and administrative fees. Most work visas are tied to an employer, so changing a job requires starting the ____15____process from scratch. Brazil’s enlightened refugee law, by contrast, grants asylum-seekers a work permit within a week of arrival, free of charge.
1.    A.    why            B.    because            C    what            D.    since
2.    A.    Nearly        B.    Hardly            C.    Rarely        D.    Scarcely
3.    A.    instead of        B.    named after        C.    regardless of    D.    celebrated with
4.    A.    human beings    B.    immigrants        C    slaves        D.    citizens
5.    A.    lowered        B.    peaked            C.    tightened        D.    strengthened
6.    A. problem        B.    puzzle            C.    surprise        D.    headache
7.    A.    therefore        B.    otherwise            C.    but            D.    although
8.    A.    With            B.    Besides            C.    Except        D.    Without
9.    A.    economy        B.    reason            C.    language        D.    name
10.    A.    English        B.    Spanish            C.    Portuguese    D.    French
11.    A.    put out        B.    put up            C.    put down        D.    put forward
12.    A.    serves        B.    thinks        C.    treats        D.    welcomes
13.    A.    supports        B.    bars            C.    establishes    D.    warns
14.    A.    take            B.    demand        C.    spend        D.    require
15.    A.    application    B.    legal            C.    working        D.    immigration
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Only a naive sports fan would be shocked by a new round of doping allegations. In cycling’s
Tour de France from 1998 - 2013, 38% of the top-ten finishers were____1____ for using performance-enhancing drugs, and a ____2____ of track-and-field athletes’ blood test results earlier this year showed that around one-seventh were “highly suggestive of doping” . Yet the report on Russian athletes published on November 9th by the World Anti-Doping Agency still represents a new kind of ___3_____— or, more precisely, a very old one. __4______merely citing individual athletes, WADA claims that Russia has maintained an organized    ___5____    doping programme of the sort that was thought to have ended with the cold war.
Russia first found itself in WADA’s cross-hairs last December, when a German TV station aired _____6___ of rampant PED use. In June the agency noted that Russia led the world in PED violations in 2013, with 11.5% of the global total. But once its investigators started ____7____, what they found was “worse than we thought”, said Dick Pound, the r
eport’s co-author and a former WADA president. “It may be a residue（残余）of the ___8_____ Soviet Union system. ’’
The report’s main smoking gun (确凿证据) ___9_____Sergey Portugalov, the chief medical
officer of the All-Russian Athletics Federation. In an e-mail, he ____10____ Yuliya Stepanova, a runner, to increase her use of ____11____ testosterone ( 睾丸素). Ms Stepanova later secretly recorded her coach, Vladimir Mokhnev, while he allegedly gave her PEDs. The report also ____12____ Dr. Portugalov of directly delivering injections of banned substances to athletes, though it does not provide specifics. Dr. Porugalov could not be reached for comment.

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