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三、Cloze(30 points)
21、根据以下内容，回答21-35题。
Canada is the second largest country in the world in area，although its ___21___ is onlysome ___25___ million．most ___22___ in a 200．mile strip ___23___ the southern border．Over ___25___ per-cent of the ___24___ number live in the three main cities．The northern areas of the country arealmost uninhabited ___25___ for isolated settlements．
Canada is ___26___ a rich country，and its national ___27___ per capita is the fifth highest inthe world．but its economy in recent years has been rather___28___，because of the varied na-ture of what itDoes．
Over the last three years，the Canadian economy has been hard___29___by falling oilprices and by rising US interest ___30___．This has ___31___ to a steep fall in industrial production by as much as a fifth since 1981．Some ___32___ now think Canada is on the ___33___ torecovery，though more cautions spirits say that no ___34___ can be expected until there is a___35___to lower interest rates in the USA．

A．people
B．residents
C．population
D．number


22、
A．residing
B．1iving
C．stay
D．inhabit


23、
A．down
B．along
C．beside
D．near


24、
A．absolute
B．total
C．all
D．complete


25、
A．except
B．but
C．only
D．besides


26、
A．fundamental
B．widely
C．overall
D．basically


27、
A．product
B．resource
C．production
D．manufactures


28、
A．seedy
B．patchy
C．spotty
D．scratchy


29、
A．influence
B．hit
C．pushed
D．hammered


30、
A．jobs
B．founds
C．rates
D．industries


31、
A．caused
B．moved
C．amounted
D．led


32、
A．economists
B．scholars
C．Canadians
D．scientists


33、
A．1ine
B．period
C．time
D．road


34、
A．uplift
B．cheer
C．future
D．improvement


35、
A．tendencv
B．shift
C．1ift
D．hike