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with the COVID-19 virus. And many health workers areunavailable because of restrictions on travel, or redeployment to COVID response duties, as well as a lack of protectiveequipment.41 A. obsession B. acquaintance C. insurance D. infectionTurns out that “coupling” doesn’t just mean “pairing” in the traditional sense, but is also a catchphrase when itcomes to finances. As we head into wedding season, it’s especially relevant. Because as much as you may think no twopeople have ever been more in love than you are, the truth is that it could be less than smooth sailing ahead if you’re noton the same page when it comes to financial matters. “Couples have a very hard time talking about money,” Joan Atwood,a Hofstra University professor of marriage and family therapy, bemoaned on an NPR “Money Coach” segment on theissue. “I would say it’s the last taboo.”You have probably discussed life goals in a dreamy sort of way while dating, but turning those reveries into realityrequires habitually saving to pay for them and to finance your later retirement years. This is most likely one thing youmay not have thought of at a time when the median ages, respectively, for brides and grooms are 29 and 31. “Whilepeople may come into a marriage with their own assets, they need to take some time after the wedding to sit down andstart getting organized as a couple,” advised a famous investment company.One thing that needs to be done is be transparent about your personal finances. There’s nothing that says you haveto put all your cash into a joint account – but at the very least you’d be “less than truthful” by not divulging anyoutstanding debts – and then figuring out, together, how to pay them down. It is also important that you two develop away to retain vital information in case a sudden need arises. To truly mark your financial coupling, you might considerusing a trustworthy online service that lets you store, access and share all your new family’s important records anddocuments anywhere via a web browser or an app. With all the other things on their to-do lists, newlyweds typicallydon’t focus on all the important financial and other documents they need to begin married life on a solid footing, but itwill make things easier for them from the start, as well as through the years as they have even more joint documents toretain – including those related to perhaps buying a house and having children.

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• 答案：D. infectionTurns out that “coupling” doesn’t just mean “pairing” in the traditional sense, but is also a catchphrase when itcomes to finances. As we head into wedding season, it’s especially relevant. Because as much as you may think no twopeople have ever been more in love than you are, the truth is that it could be less than smooth sailing ahead if you’re noton the same page when it comes to financial matters. “Couples have a very hard time talking about money,” Joan Atwood,a Hofstra University professor of marriage and family therapy, bemoaned on an NPR “Money Coach” segment on theissue. “I would say it’s the last taboo.”You have probably discussed life goals in a dreamy sort of way while dating, but turning those reveries into realityrequires habitually saving to pay for them and to finance your later retirement years. This is most likely one thing youmay not have thought of at a time when the median ages, respectively, for brides and grooms are 29 and 31. “Whilepeople may come into a marriage with their own assets, they need to take some time after the wedding to sit down andstart getting organized as a couple,” advised a famous investment company.One thing that needs to be done is be transparent about your personal finances. There’s nothing that says you haveto put all your cash into a joint account – but at the very least you’d be “less than truthful” by not divulging anyoutstanding debts – and then figuring out, together, how to pay them down. It is also important that you two develop away to retain vital information in case a sudden need arises. To truly mark your financial coupling, you might considerusing a trustworthy online service that lets you store, access and share all your new family’s important records anddocuments anywhere via a web browser or an app. With all the other things on their to-do lists, newlyweds typicallydon’t focus on all the important financial and other documents they need to begin married life on a solid footing, but itwill make things easier for them from the start, as well as through the years as they have even more joint documents toretain – including those related to perhaps buying a house and having children.

解析

空格前的線索是「fear ___ with the COVID-19 virus」，此處需表達「害怕感染新冠病毒」；「infection with a virus」正是「感染某病毒」的慣用搭配，且後文提到醫護人員因旅遊限制、被調派至防疫工作及缺乏防護裝備而無法上班，扣合傳染病情境，故選 D。A obsession 指著迷、沉迷；B acquaintance 指相識的人；C insurance 指保險，三者放入句中皆無法表達感染之意。

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