单选题 Cash is unlikely to go away soon.Coins and paper 26_____ remain the most popular ways to pay for things in most countries.But in the long term,cash appears to be in a 27_____ battle with electronic payment methods.

There are few comers of the world where electroruc 28_____ are not growing faster than cash.But the movement away from cash is happening in very different ways and at 29_____ paces around the world. Scandinavian (斯堪的纳维亚的) countries are already wellalong the road toward 30_____ societies.

Many banks in Sweden no longer have cash on hand,and consumers can make instant transfers directly from their bank accounts. 

In Kenya,the local mobile phone company Safaricom,not the banks or the government,has pushed the envelope.Safaricom created a system,known as M-Pesa,that allows customers to make payments 31_____ from their phones.

The 32_____ of moving away from cash have been trumpeted (鼓吹) by economists like Kenneth Rogoff,who wrote The Curse of Cash,about how paper money enables 33_____ and tax evasion. But the critics of cash have been met by their own critics,who argue that electronic payments can disenfranchise (剥夺某人的权利) poor people who 34_____ easy access to bank accounts and the internet and can make it much easier for governments and corporations to monitor a person's every step.

In the end,though,the future of money is less likely to be determined by these arguments than to be 35_____ by the success of technologists making it easier for you to pay for your lunch or morning coffee without pulling out your wallet.

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【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】空格前是定冠词the,后面是介词of,因此空格处应填入名词。通过分析句子结构可知,空格处的名词作句子的主语,由句子的谓语have been trumpeted可知空格处的名词应为复数形式。本句提到,像肯尼思·罗格夫这样的经济学家一直在鼓吹摆脱现金的____,他撰写了《现金的诅咒》一书。由著作名称可知,肯尼思·罗格夫对现金持反对态度,因此推断他所鼓吹的是摆脱现金的好处,故B) benefits“好处,益处”为答案。