听力题 Foot massage parlors are sprouting up all over China. In big cities, like Beijing, there are shops on many street (36) 1, and foot massage chain stores employ thousands of workers. This (37) 2industry is producing thousands of new jobs for the blind, who traditionally in Asia have been trained to do massage. The Chinese government says more than five million people work in the foot massage (38) 3. Most of them come from poor rural areas, and getting jobs in the city rubbing other people''s feet offers a way out of poverty. Workers at some shops have only (39) 4 training, leaving them wide open to competition from (40) 5 trained blind massage therapists, who promise to deliver medicinal (41) 6 at a competitive price. Cao Jun has been blind from birth and he (42) 7three foot massage parlors. "We have an advantage in terms of touching and feeling, so we are very confident that we do a better job than (43) 8people," he says. Massage has traditionally been considered a profession for the blind in China, Japan and other Asian nations. Now (44) 9. (45) 10. Mr. Cao says his 10-year-old business is strictly for medicinal massage based on ancient Chinese theories of reflexology, which say (46) 11.
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【正确答案】 1、corners,    2、mushrooming,    3、trade,    4、minimal,    5、highly,    6、benefits,    7、owns,    8、ordinary,    9、the Chinese government is encouraging the blind to take up massage as an occupation that will allow them to live independently,    10、Special massage schools have set up four-year programs, giving sightless students far more training than their sighted counterparts,    11、that points on the feet correlate to parts of the body and that specialized foot rubs, which hit the different points, promote overall health    
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