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During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. When the crops were good, the【S1
During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. When the crops were good, the【S1
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During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. When the crops were good, the【S1】______was good; when the crops failed, there was depression. People on city streets watched the【S2】______and the price of wheat with almost as much feeling as if they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasingly【S3】______topic of conversation.
War set the stage for the most dramatic events in【S4】______the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative(投机的)grain selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat prices were【S5】______low in the autumn, but farmers could not wait for markets to improve. It had【S6】______too often that they sold their wheat soon after harvest when farm debts were coming due, only to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. On various【S7】______, producer groups asked for firmer controls, but governments had no wish to become involved, at least not until wartime wheat prices threatened to run wild.
【S8】______to check inflation and rising living costs, the federal government appointed a board of grain supervisors to handle deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was【S9】______, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle the crop of 1919, the government appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with【S10】______authority to buy, sell, and set prices.
A)happened I)appointed
B)due J)increasingly
C)handle K)suspended
D)anxious L)occasions
E)full M)yields
F)economy N)generally
G)favorite O)firmer
H)marketing
【S2】
选项
答案
M
解析
名词填空。根据语境,“路人皆关心小麦的产量和价格”,故答案为[M] yields。
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