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三.文意選填(請忽略大小寫)，10%。    After more than a month of furious, antigovernment demonstrations across France, it iseasy to forget that a gasoline tax set all this off. Many of these protesters, predominantlywhite working poor and middle-class people who scrape by on their paychecks and____31____, live in what the author Christophe Guilluy has called “peripheral France.” Theterm is meant to imply both a state of being and the thousands of small, struggling cities,towns and rural districts ____32____ the inner-ring suburbs of places like Paris, Bordeaux,Lyon or Lille.    As small businesses have been dying in these smaller cities and towns, people findthemselves forced to seek jobs elsewhere and to shop even for basic goods in ____33____.They need cars to survive, because regional trains and buses have declined or no longer servethem. Once we begin to unpack the Yellow Vest ____34____, the uprising is a lot aboutmobility.    Mobility is closely about globalization and ____35____. Nevertheless it means morethan trains, planes and automobiles, after all. It also includes social and ____36____ mobility.While some are rich enough to transfer money out of the country, some are too poor to afforda car. As a handful of big cities thrived with globalization, France’s regional governments,saddled with more financial burdens, became caught in a dire ____37____. Capitaldisappeared along with factories and jobs. Revenues shrank, debts mounted and ____38____declined. Among the hardest hit services were the regional railways, run by the French railcompany, SNCF, which overwhelmingly invested in high-speed trains that served the big,prospering cities and is now $56 billion in debt. With service beginning to ____39____,people need their cars. That is why the gasoline tax exposed a profound cultural ____40____,and weeks of protests by the Yellow Vests have made that clear. (AB) atrophy (AC) augment (AD) beyond (AE) breach(BC) economic (BD) inequity (BE) infrastructure (CD) malls(CE) pensions (DE) phenomenon (ABC) quagmire (ABD) within
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