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Korea Daily International Edition Maple Home and Life Insurance to Cut 1,500 jobs The oldest insurance agency in Bus

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问题    Korea Daily
   International Edition
   Maple Home and Life Insurance to Cut 1,500 jobs
   The oldest insurance agency in Busan is planning to eliminate at least 1,500 jobs by the end of the year. The mass layoff has already  (147)   , with the first 400 people receiving their termination slips last Friday. Maple Home and Life is one of five financial services companies in Korea that has decided to downsize this year."  (148)   labor costs is the only way we can avoid bankruptcy," said the company’s vice-president.
   Financial analyst Yoon Kwang-ung says that an unexpected amount of insurance claims clue  (149)   a season of forest fires, occurring in a weakening economy, has caused the mass layoff. But employees are not satisfied with these and other excuses they are hearing in the media. "We want answers. And we won’t leave until we get them," said Hwang Woo-suk, who plans to march in a protest outside the insurance office tomorrow.
选项 A、Creating
B、Building
C、Operating
D、Cutting
答案D
解析 The company needs to cut, or reduce, costs because it is having financial problems. Choices (A) and (B) would give the sentence the opposite of the correct meaning. Choice (C) is confused with operating costs, another type of expense a company has.  
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