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"We want Singapore to have the X-factor, that buzz that you get in London, Paris, or New York". That is how Lee Hsien Loong, Sin
"We want Singapore to have the X-factor, that buzz that you get in London, Paris, or New York". That is how Lee Hsien Loong, Sin
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2010-11-27
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问题
"We want Singapore to have the X-factor, that buzz that you get in London, Paris, or New York". That is how Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s prime minister, (1)_____ his government’s decision to (2)_____ gambling in the country, (3)_____ two large, Vegas-style casinos. Whether the casinos will indeed help to transform Singapore’s staid image remains to be seen. But the decision bas already (4)_____ an uncharacteristic buzz among the country’s normally (5)_____ citizens.
The government has contemplated, and rejected (6)_____ casinos several times in the past. One reason was (7)_____ Singapore’s economic growth was so rapid that casinos seemed like an unnecessary evil. Buddhism and Islam, two of the country’s main religions, (8)_____ on gambling. The government itself has traditionally had strong, and often (9)_____, ideas about how its citizens should behave. Until recently, for example, it refused to (10)_____ homosexuals to the civil service. It also used to (11)_____ chewing gum, which it considers a public nuisance.
Nowadays, (12)_____, Singapore’s electronics industry, the mainstay of the economy, is struggling to cope with cheap competition from places like China. In the first quarter of this year, output (13)_____ by 5.8% at an annual rate. So the government wants lo promote tourism and other services to (14)_____ for vanishing jobs in manufacturing.
Merrill Lynch, an investment bank, (15)_____ the two proposed casinos could (16)_____ in as much as $4 billion in the initial investment alone. (17)_____ its estimates, they would have annual revenues of (18)_____ $3.6 billion, and pay at least $600 million in taxes and fees. The government, for its part, thinks the integrated (19)_____, as it coyly calls the casinos, would (20)_____ as many as 35,000 jobs.
选项
A、cool
B、calm
C、collected
D、quiescent
答案
D
解析
本题考查近义词。根据上下文中的"造成了新加坡国内一次不寻常的争议"可以推知:在平时新加坡人应该是安静的。而calm(沉着的,镇定的)与本文无关,故不选。
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考研英语一
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