单项选择题 The real problem is not the economic crisis that dominates the headlines, but a pair of intertwined long-term concerns: the shrinking work force, and money squandered on life support for______industries and backward regions.

单项选择题 Having been______as immoral by some reviewers of Tess of the D’ Urberilles four years earlier, Hardy subsequently______to preface his work with declamatory caveats.

单项选择题 Skeptics have debated whether welfare rights, including those to medical care or employment training,______solidarity and fellow-feeling, or whether they erode initiative and______dependency.