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Passage 29
People can now avoid having to sort through albums from several different friends when trying to relive parties weddings and other shared events.It’s the latest innovation in the increasingly _l_ photo-sharing market that has Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other all _2_ for photo uploads.
The Facebook user who makes a Shared Album Feature
can add up to 200 photos each. Previously created albums can be turned into shared albums as well.
The creator sets the _4_ settings for the entire album, which can be contributors only, friends of contributors only or public. when people are tagged in photos, the audience _5_ expands to friends of the person tagged. Each contributor is _6_ when new photos are added. The album creator may delete any contributor’s photos, so it may be a good idea to preserve a backup _7_.
Contributor can upload photos or _8_ an existing album into the shared one. They may also add other contributors and edit their own photos. A contributor who’s kicked out or __9__ an album has to go to their Activity Log to delete the photos in the album.
Mobile users can upload photos to a shared album. However, a shared album can’t be created from a mobile device yet. Facebook programmers started designing the feature and put a working version together in a matter of hours. But the _10_ of the feature more than eight months later shows the effort Facebook must now go through to deliver a version of something that works for all of the 1.1 billion people on the social network.
A) privacy B) merge C) cultivated D) harness
E) leaves F) notified G) somewhere H) turn
I)forthcoming J) automatically K) striving L) explicit
M) release N) competitive O) henceforth

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Passage 29
解题思路
1.[N]空格位于副词increasingly和名词短语photo-sharing market之间，据此推断此处应填入形容词。本句提到Facebook, Google和Yahoo都加入到相片分享市场，可见这个市场的竞争很激烈，因此选用competi- tive最合适。
2.[K]此处应填入动词原形或现在分词与has构成has sb. do/doing的结构。共享相册是一个创新(innovation)，再结合后面出现的几家公司，可推知他们争相占领这个市场。题库中striving符合语义。
3.[H]空格所在的定语从句主谓宾齐全，由此判断in...在从句中作状语。本句指出，Facebook用户可创建共享相册，每个相册上传人数限定50人，每个人可以上传200张照片。in可与名词turn构成固定搭配，in turn “依次，轮流”符合语义。
4.[A]空格在定冠词和名词之间，可为形容词、动词分词或名词作定语。结合定语从句的描述：只有向上传人、上传人的好友或面向公众开放，可知此处说的是关于隐私的设定，privacy符合语义。
5.[J]句子主谓宾齐全，判断空格处应为副词，修饰动词expands。词库中副词automatically“自动地”放人句中，句意通顺，指出照片上的人一旦被加上标注，相册会“自动”向其朋友开放。
6.[F]空格位于be动词之后，可以为名词、形容词或为分词。本句说的是有新照片加入共享相册的时候，相册的所有上传人(each contributor)会怎样。此处最适当的是notified，表示“得以告知”。
7.[G]空格所在句主谓宾结构完整，据此推断空格应为副词，表明保存照片的方式或地点。词库中只有副词somewhere符合语境。
8.[B] or提示空格需填人动词与前面的upload并列作句子的谓语，而且该动词可以与into搭配。后面的into the shared one提示，此处说的是将现有相册放进共享相册，merge符合语义。
9.[E]空格需要一个与is kicked out并列的动词，本句提到照片的上传者要去活动日志删除照片的两种情况，一种是他们被赶出去(is kicked out),另一种应该是“自动退出”，因此用leaves最适合。
10.[M]空格前的定冠词the提示这里应填入名词。后面提到，Facebook要做出努力(shows the effort Facebook must go through)以推出面向很多人的社交网络，由此推知，只有“推出”共享相册一段时间后，才能发现 产品的缺陷,从而进一步完善产品，release符合语境。