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  3. 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

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
【C9】
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答案E
解析 空格位于定冠词the和名词future之间，故应填入形容词修饰 future。上文提到要想推广使用机械来采摘水果还需要进行一些修整，可知在未来的一段时间内，仍主要依赖人工进行采摘，故空格处应填入E项foreseeable“可预知的”。
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