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During McDonald’s early years French fries were made from scratch every day. Russet Burbank potatoes were(1)______, cut into sho
During McDonald’s early years French fries were made from scratch every day. Russet Burbank potatoes were(1)______, cut into sho
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2013-11-10
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During McDonald’s early years French fries were made from scratch every day. Russet Burbank potatoes were(1)______, cut into shoestrings, and fried in its kitchens.(2)_____ the chain expanded nationwide, in the mid-1960s, it sought to(3)_____ labour costs, reduce the number of suppliers, and (4)_____ that its fries tasted the same at every restaurant. McDonald’s began(5)_____ to frozen French fries in 1966—and few customers noticed the difference.(6)_____, the change had a profound effect(7)_____ the nation’s agriculture and diet. A familiar food had been transformed into a highly processed industrial(8)_____. McDonald’s fries now come from huge manufacturing plants(9)_____ can process two million pounds of potatoes a day. The expansion(10)_____ McDonald’s and the popularity of its low-cost, mass-produced fries changed the way Americans eat.
The(11)_____ of McDonald’s French fries played a(12)_____ role in the chain’s success— fries are much more profitable than hamburgers— and was(13)_____ praised by customers, competitors, and even food critics. Their(14)_____ taste does not stem(15)_____ the kind of potatoes that McDonald’s(16)_____, the technology that processes them, or the restaurant equipment that fries them: other chains use Russet Burbank, buy their French fries from the(17)_____ large processing companies, and have similar(18)_____ in their restaurant kitchens. The taste of a French fry is (19)_____ determined by the cooking oil. For decades McDonald’s cooked its French fries in a mixture of about 7 per cent cottonseed oil and 93 per cent beef fat. The mixture gave the fries their unique(20)_____.
(12)
选项
A、critical
B、credible
C、comparable
D、crucial
答案
D
解析
由下文可知,薯条的利润高,且易受到顾客、对手及美食家的称赞,故推断薯条对麦当劳的发展起重要的作用。crucial和critical均有“重要的,关键的”这一含义,但critical指极为危急或缺乏的状况,这种状况标志着一种转折点;而crucial则强调十分重要.并没有强调危急或缺乏之意。结合本句,crucial更符合文意,故选D。credible“可信的”;comparable“比得上的”
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