During the 1980s, unemployment (失业人数) and underemployment (不充分就业) in some countries was so high as 90 per cent. Some countries did not 【B1】 enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not 【B2】 . Many of these countries looked 【B3】 the industrial processes of the developed nations for solution. 【B4】 , problems cannot always be solved by 【B5】 the industrialized nations. Industry in the developed nations is highly automated and very 【B6】 . It provides fewer jobs than labor-intensive industrial 【B7】 , and highly skilled workers are needed to 【B8】 and repair the equipment. These workers must be trained, 【B9】 many nations do not have the necessary training institutions. Thus, the 【B10】 of importing industry becomes higher. Students must be sent abroad to receive vocational and 【B11】 training. 【B12】 , just to begin training, the students must 【B13】 learn English, French, Germans, or Japanese. The students then spend many years abroad, and 【B14】 do not return home. All nations agree that science and technology should be shared. The point is: countries 【B15】 the industrial processes of the developed nations need to look carefully 【B16】 the costs, be cause ninny of these costs are 【B17】 Students from these nations should 【B18】 the problems of the industrialized countries closely. 【B19】 care, they will take home not the problems of science and technology, 【B20】 the benefits.
A.exposed
B.vague
C.uncovered
D.hidden
参考答案:D
解析:语义衔接题。根据该句中的because可知,所题词正是这些国家需要look carefully at the costs的原因。如果many of these costs是exposed或uncovered,那这些国家就不需要仔细考虑了,因此排除选项[A]和[C]选项[B]虽然含有负面的含义,但它是指“(轮廓)模糊的;(描述或表达)含糊的”,不符合与costs的搭配,也被排除。