题目：
Instead, the agency would offer its services in research and development to buttress industry's work on a given task.
A．increase
B．decrease
C．support
D．import
答案：
参考答案：C
解析：[分析] 名词辨析buttress 支持，(以扶壁)扶住；A．increase增加，加大，繁殖；B．decrease 减少； C．support 支撑，扶持，支持；D．import 输入，进口；因此C为答案。
