填空题Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the
correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by
using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letters of the
word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. To its fans, it is addictive. To the media, it is a promising
money-maker. Sudoku, an old puzzle long popular in Japan is fast gaining
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a sudoku book is a bestseller and national newspapers are competing {{U}}
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fiendish, puzzles. Meanwhile, the puzzle is being published in newspapers from
Australia to Croatia to America. Even the New York Times is considering
intr{{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}sudoku in its Sunday magazine,
alongside its venerated crossword. The game's appeal is that
its rules are as simple as its solution is complex. On a board of nine-by-nine
sq{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}, most of them empty, players must
fill in each one {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}a number so that
each row (left to right), column (top to bottom) and block (in bold lines)
contains 1 to 9. Advanced ver{{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}use
bigger boards or add letters from the alphabet. Sudoku-the
Japanese word combines "number" and "single"-seems perfectly suited to modern
times, a puzzle for an era when people are more nu{{U}} {{U}} 7
{{/U}} {{/U}}than literate. And like globalism itself, sudoku transcends
borders by {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}(require) no
translation. The overall business of puzzles is hard to measure
{{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}revenues in America from magazines,
syndicated newspaper sales, books, and online and phone services are almost
＄200m annually. The New York Times earns millions of dollars a year from its
crosswords and hundreds of thousands from a special phone service that provides
{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}(hint). Over 30,000 people pay ＄35 a
year for the newspaper's e-mail version.