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  3. The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with

The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with

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问题     The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly given
way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food.
Rationing is virtual suspended. and overseas suppliers have been asked【S1】________
to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is widespread easiness【S2】________
and confusion. Why d0 food prices keep on rising when there seems to
be SO much more food about? Is the abundance only temporary, but has【S3】________
it come to stay? Does it mean that we need to think less now about
producing more food at home? No one knows what to expect.
    The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market
have certainly been unexpectedly great. partly because of a strange【S4】________
sequence of two successful grain harvests. North America is now being
followed by a three. Most of Britain’s overseas suppliers of meat, too, 【S5】________
are offering more this year and home production has also arisen. 【S6】________
But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has【S7】________
made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly for the【S8】________
gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shops are
overstocked with food not only as there is more food available, but also【S9】________
because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it.
    Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when
world prices have begun to fall, with the result which imported food, 【S10】________
with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home—produced
variety. And now grain prices, too, are falling. Consumers are
beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from this
trend.
【S2】
选项
答案easiness—uneasiness
解析 语义错误。根据该句中的instead of joy以及and后面的confusion可以推断，此处表示人们感到不安，而不是感到很舒服，因此将easiness改为其反义词uneasiness“担心，不安”。
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