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Sausage has been a part of humans’ cooking system for 15,000 years. Nobody knows who first thought to chop up one part of an ani

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问题         Sausage has been a part of humans’ cooking system for 15,000 years. Nobody knows who first thought to chop up one part of an animal, stuff that mixture into another part, and then cook it. But as long as humans have had【C1】________to fire and meat, they have been eating something as a sausage. Ancient Rome and medieval Europe had sausages. They’re even【C2】________in the Odyssey.
        In the 17th and 18th centuries, British【C3】________brought sausages to American shores, but the hot dog as it is known today is nearer to the German sausage. While sausages as street food were【C4】________in American cities by the late 1700s, it was only after the Civil War that the sausage became mechanized and【C5】________. Meat moved from the butcher shop to the factory. The hot dog was born.
        This industrialization was possible for a few reasons. The growing American desire for meat and me ability to afford it, for one part. The construction and connection of railways, for another. New machinery had started to【C6】_________human butchers as well. By the 1870s, massive firms could swiftly slaughter, season, and process animals【C7】_________by rail from the stockyards of the Midwest and turn them into hot dogs-Americans wanted hot dogs,【C8】_________the identical ones that came from name-brand companies.
        By the early 20th century, the hot dog was fully American, and closely【C9】_________with another American pastime, baseball. Somehow, a mass-produced hot dog had become a【C10】_________of American individualism.
A) access
B) associated
C) common
D) delivered
E) extremely
F) immigrants
G) industrialized
H) mentioned
I) modernized
J) ordinary
K) particularly
L) referred
M) replace
N) symbol
O) transfer
【C7】
选项
答案D
解析 根据空格所在句前半部分可知，截至19世纪70年代，大量的公司可以快速地屠宰、腌制、加工牲畜；后半部分提到这些牲畜来自中西部养殖场。由此可见，这些牲畜是从中西部由火车“运送”到各个公司。结合备选项，可以推断delivered“传送，递送”符合句意，故为答案。
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