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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)_____.
(3)
选项
A、diminish
B、cut
C、decrease
D、lessen
答案
B
解析
cut cost为习惯搭配,表示“削减开支”。di-minish“(使)减少”、decrease“减少”、lessen“减少”,均不与cost搭配。
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