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Nearly two-thirds of businesses in the UK want to recruit staff with foreign language skills. French is still the most highly pr

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问题     Nearly two-thirds of businesses in the UK want to recruit staff with foreign language skills. French is still the most highly prized language, but Spanish and Mandarin speakers are more 【C1】______ demand than in the past.
    Katja Hall, deputy director-general of Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said that,【C2】______the EU was the UK’s largest export market, it was no surprise to see European languages so【C3】______valued. "【C4】______ with China and Latin America seeing solid growth, ambitious firms want the language skills that can【C5】______the path into new markets," she said.
    The 2014 annual education and skills survey by the CBI and Pearson, the educational【C6】______that owns the Financial Times, 【C7】______ that 41 percent of the 291 companies surveyed across the UK【C8】______knowledge of a foreign language was 【C9】______ to their business. European languages—French, German and Spanish—still 【C10】______ the list in terms of desirability, but these were closely【C11】______by Mandarin and Arabic.
    Ms Hall said it was【C12】______whether recent government initiatives to encourage language learning in schools would have any【C13】______. "It has been a【C14】______to see foreign language study in our schools under pressure with one in five schools having a【C15】______low take-up of languages," she said. "Young people【C16】______their future subject choices should be made more【C17】______of the benefits to their careers that can【C18】______from studying a foreign language."
    The number of students studying foreign languages has 【C19】______ in the past decade. In January, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills said the number of "skills shortage vacancies" had risen from 16 per cent of all 【C20】______ in 2009 to 22 per cent in 2013.  
【C11】
选项 A、guarded
B、followed
C、tied
D、confirmed
答案B
解析 考查动词辨析。联系上题可知此处句意为“欧洲语言——法语、德语和西班牙语——仍在企业想要的外语技能排行榜上高居榜首，但______就是汉语普通话和阿拉伯语”。B．followed与by搭配，表示“紧随其后，其后是”的意思，符合题意，为正确答案。其他三项，guard“保卫，守护”，tie“系，连接”，confirm“确认”，均不符合题意，故排除。
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