The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places despite their obvious advantages. Fur

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问题     The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places despite their obvious advantages. Furthermore, the advertising expenditure for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee. Efforts were【C1】______ to find the cause of the consumers’ seemingly unreasonable【C2】______ to the product. The reason given by most people was【C3】______   for the taste. The producers suspected that there might be【C4】______ reasons, however. This was confirmed by one of【C5】______  research’s classic studies, one often cited in the trade. Mason Haire, of the University of California,【C6】______ two shopping lists that were identical except for one【C7】______ . There were six items common to both lists, carrots, baking power, bread, canned peaches and potatoes,【C8】______ the brands or amounts specified. The seventh item, in the fifth【C9】______ both fists, read "! pound. Maxwell House coffee" on the list and "Nescafe instant coffee" on the【C10】______ One list was given to each person in a group of fifty【C11】______ , and the other list to those in another group of the same【C12】______ .The women were asked to study their lists and then to describe【C13】______ they could, the kind of woman (personality and character)【C14】______  would draw up that shopping list.【C15】______ half of those who had received the list including instant coffee【C16】______ a housewife who was lazy and a poor planner.【C17】______ , only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had【C18】______ regular coffee on her list,【C19】______ lazy; only six of that group suggested that she was a poor planner. Eight women felt that the instant-coffee user was probably not a good wife! No one in the other group【C20】______ such a conclusion about the housewife who intended to buy regular coffee.  
【C1】

选项 A、done
B、made
C、taken
D、put

答案B

解析 惯用搭配题。本句的意思是:“人们努力找寻消费者抵制速溶咖啡的原因。”空格处要求填入一个过去分词,与名词effort构成搭配。四个选项中,A done、C taken、D put均不可与effort搭配,只有选项B made可以,短语make an effort to do sth.意思是“努力做某事”,例如:Make an effort to arrive promptly.(尽力早些赶到。)因此选项B为正确答案。
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