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Small communities, with their distinctive character—where life is stable and

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问题    Small communities, with their distinctive character—where life is stable and intensely human—are disappearing. Some have【C1】______ from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have【C2】______ changes as they have come into contact with an【C3】______ machine civilization. The merging of diverse peoples into a common mass has produced tension among members of the minorities and the majority alike.
   The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have【C4】______ in the modern world in distinctive, small communities. They have resisted the homogenization【C5】______ more successfully than others. In planting and harvest time one can see their bearded men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to dry. Many American people have seen Amish families, with the men wearing broad-brimmed black hats and the women in long dresses, in railway or bus【C6】______ . Although the Amish have lived with【C7】______ America for over two and a half centuries, they have moderated its influence on their personal lives, their families, communities, and their values.
   The Amish are often【C8】______ by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs. They are seen as abandoning both modern【C9】______ and the American dream of success and progress. But most people have no quarrel with the Amish for doing things the old-fashioned way. Their conscientious objection was tolerated in wartime, for after all, they are good farmers who【C10】______ the virtues of work and thrift.
   A) accessing F) perceived K) survived
   B) conveniences G) practice L) terminals
   C) destined H) process M) undergone
   D) expanding I) progress N) universal
   E) industrialized J) respective O) vanished [br] 【C4】
分析句子结构可知，句子缺少谓语动词，且空格位于助动词have后面，据此判断应填入动词的过去分词，另外此动词应为不及物动词。[语义判断]空格所在句下一句提到，他们比其他群体更成功地抵制了同质化。由此可推断，阿米什人成功地保留了其特色，故survived“保存下来”为答案。
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