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

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] 【C9】
选项
答案 L
解析 空格位于of所有格结构的名词前，故应填入形容词修饰该名词。该句中，不定式表目的，说设立网站的目的是为了把印度大量的工人与需要劳动力的人连接起来，结合上下文，这些工人必然是指那些在等待机会的待岗工人，也就是潜在的劳动力，故空格里应填入potential“潜在的”。备选的形容词crucial意为“关键的”，不符合文意，故排除。
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