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  3. I’m always baffled when I walk into a pharmacy and see shelves bursting with

I’m always baffled when I walk into a pharmacy and see shelves bursting with

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问题     I’m always baffled when I walk into a pharmacy and see shelves bursting with various vitamins, extracts and other supplements, all promising to accelerate or promote weight loss. Aisles of marketing genius belie (掩饰) the fact that, 【C1】 ________ weight loss is dictated by the laws of arithmetic. Economist Jessica Irvine wrote a book about how she used math to help her lose more than 18 kilograms. If calories taken in are less than calories 【C2】 ________ , weight shall be lost, and so it is with money.
    Despite the 【C3】 ________ of financial products, services and solutions geared towards accumulating wealth, if all begins with the same 【C4】 ________ : getting ahead financially requires a reduction of spending, so that income is greater than expenses. I was reminded of this again recently listening to an interview with Nicole Haddow, the author of Smashed Avocado, explaining how she cracked the property market at 31. It was quite a 【C5】 ________ , given where she had been two years earlier.
    Nicole didn’t celebrate her 30th birthday as she had 【C6】 ________ . She was sobbing at the dinner table with her parents, with whom she had just moved back in. She had no stable income, $ 12,000 in credit-card debt and no plan, but to her 【C7】 ________ , her father, an accountant, told her that her financial 【C8】 ________ wasn’t as bad as she thought. He said, on her income, with some changes, she would be able to buy an investment unit within two years, which she did.
    Nicole admitted she was fortunate, as she was able to live with her parents and 【C9】 ________ her spending— and life—to get herself on track financially. Creating a gap between her income and spending required a paradigm shift and 【C10】 ________ sacrifice and commitment, but by going into financial lockdown, Nicole gained financial independence.
     A) abundance        F) expended        K) permanently
     B) astonishment     G) feat            L) plight
     C) entailed         H) fiscally        M) prosper
     D) envisaged        I) impetus         N) shatter
     E) equation         J) overhaul        O) ultimately   [br] 【C7】
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答案 B
解析 名词辨析题。空格前面是介词to和形容词性物主代词her，因此空格处需要填入名词作介词to的宾语。该句的第一个分句具体指出妮可面临的困境，而空格所在的第二个分句由but引导，表示转折，指出父亲告诉她，目前的财务状况没她想的那么糟糕，由此可知父亲的话令妮可感到非常吃惊，而短语“to + one’s +情感名词”意为“令某人……”，因此空格处填入的名词应表示“惊讶”的意思，故B) astonishment为答案。
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