As the recent courgette(密生西葫芦) crisis and shortages of lettuce, eggplants and broccoli(绿花椰菜) have shown, Spain’s fame as the veg

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问题     As the recent courgette(密生西葫芦) crisis and shortages of lettuce, eggplants and broccoli(绿花椰菜) have shown, Spain’s fame as the vegetable garden of Europe is well deserved. The country’s huge agricultural sector—courgettes, lettuces, tomatoes and strawberries—【C1】________a huge demand.
    There has been a major【C2】________towards mechanization since the 1950s, but just as in the UK, many crops still need to be harvested by hand, and many farmers rely on migrant labour. Even where mechanisation can be used, picking machines tend to be too expensive and【C3】________for small-scale farmers.
    The tension between locals and migrant workers, 【C4】________from North and Sub-Saharan Africa and eastern Europe—is not a big problem, as many of the foreign workers have proper【C5】________and return to the same farms year after year. They’re known and that’s important.
    Alfrut—a company in the south-western province of Huelva that exports strawberries, raspberries, and other fruits around the EU—shill harvests by hand. “There is a machine that gathers strawberries, but you have to【C6】________the crop to the machine,” says Agustin Muriel, a technical and quality control expert at Alfrut. “If we were to use machines, we would have to【C7】________our entire infrastructure and it would require a lot of investment in machinery, which is designed mainly for large areas and really big companies.”
    He adds that the【C8】________, manual approach is likely to continue for the【C9】________future, as fruit prices aren’t high enough to allow farmers to make big【C10】________in machinery or spend money reconfiguring(重新配置) their operations.
    A) adapt       F) heralds       K) predominantly
    B) attach      G) impractical   L) preference
    C) contracts   H) inaccessible  M) shift
    D) feeds       I) investments   N) traditional
    E) foreseeable J) modify        O) unexpectedly
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答案I

解析 空格位于谓语动词make和形容词big之后,且没有只用冠词,可知应填入名词复数形式或不可数名词。由or spend money reconfiguring(重新配置)their operations 可推出,空格所在句是指“在机械上的大额投资”,故此处应填入I项investments“投资”。
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