German Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his【C1】______and diplomatic talent, but his contributions to the

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问题    German Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his【C1】______and diplomatic talent, but his contributions to the society include many of today’s social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19th century, Germany, along with other European nations,【C2】______an unusual outbreak of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing【C3】______. Motivated in part by Christian sympathy for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to get the created of the socialist labor movement, Bismarck【C4】______ the world’s first worker’s compensation law in 1884.
   By 1908, the United States was the【C5】______industrial nation in the world that lacked workers’ compensation insurance. American’s injured workers could seek compensation in a court of law, but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers.【C6】______, employees had to prove that their injuries directly【C7】______employer’s lack of care and they themselves were ignorant about potential danger in the workplace. The first state workers’ compensation law in this country passed in 1911, and the program soon【C8】______ throughout the nation.
   After World War II, benefit payments to American workers did not【C9】______the cost of living. In fact, real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they were in the 1940s, and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty level for a family of four. In 1970, President Richard Nixon set up a national commission to study the problems of workers’ compensation. Two years later, the commission issued 19 key recommendations,【C10】______one that called for increasing compensation benefit levels to 100 percent of the states’ average weekly wages.
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选项 A、put up with
B、face up to
C、benefit from
D、keep up with

答案D

解析 考查动词短语辨析。put up with“容忍”,face up to“勇于面对”,benefit from“受益于”,keep up with“跟上”。根据下文可知,美国工人的福利很低,无法跟上生活的费用。故选D。
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