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  3. A.inflation B.short C.up to A.previous shocks resulted in double-digit【T7】______and global economic decline B.taxes acco

A.inflation B.short C.up to A.previous shocks resulted in double-digit【T7】______and global economic decline B.taxes acco

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问题 A.inflation     B.short     C.up to
A.previous shocks resulted in double-digit【T7】______and global economic decline
B.taxes account for【T8】______four-fifths of the retail price
C.push the price higher still in the【T9】______term
    Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $ 26 a barrel, up from less than $ 10 last December.This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979—1980, when they also almost tripled.Both【T10】______.So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?
    The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports.Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could【T11】______.
    Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s.In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller shareof the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s.In Europe,【T12】_______, so even quite bigchanges in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.
【T8】
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答案up to
解析 因为four-fifths为数词，又up to后面接数词，表示“高达……”符合题意。所以，答案是up to。
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