Directions: In this part, there are three short texts.For each text, you should first fill in the blank in the choices A, B, C (and D) with the best answer provided in the rectangle.Then, complete the text itself by filling in each of the blanks with the completed A, or B, or C (or D).Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

Text One

A.(1) _____ tile oil shortage

B.As oil prices (2) _____.

C.homeowners may not get (3) _____ heating oil

　　One of the most widely discussed subjects these days is tile energy crisis.Automobile drivers cannot get gasoline: (4) _____: factories are threatened by a fuel shortage.

　　The crisis has raised questions about the large oil companies and windfall profits.Critics of the oil industry charge that the major companies are getting richer (5) _____.Shortage, of course, drives prices up.(6) _____, the critics say, the oil companies will make more money (windfall profits) without doing a thing to earn the extra cash.“Windfall” profits are sudden unearned profits-profits made because of luck, or some special turn of events.

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