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  3. During McDonald’s early years French fries were made from scratch every day. Russet Burbank potatoes were 【B1】 , cut into shoest

During McDonald’s early years French fries were made from scratch every day. Russet Burbank potatoes were 【B1】 , cut into shoest

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问题     During McDonald’s early years French fries were made from scratch every day. Russet Burbank potatoes were 【B1】 , cut into shoestrings, and fried in its kitchens. 【B2】 the chain expanded nationwide, in the mid-1960s, it sought to cut labour costs, reduce the number of suppliers, and 【B3】 that its fries tasted the same at every restaurant.McDonald’s began 【B4】 to frozen French fries in 1966 — and few customers noticed the difference. 【B5】 the change had a profound effect on the nation’s agriculture and diet. A familiar food had been transformed into a highly processed industrial 【B6】 . McDonald’s fries now come from huge manufacturing plants 【B7】 can process two million pounds of potatoes a day. The expansion 【B8】 McDonald’s and the popularity of its lowcost, massproduced fries changed the way Americans eat.
    The taste of McDonald’s French fries played a crucial role in the chain’s success -- fries are much more profitable than hamburgers and was 【B9】 praised by customers, competitors, and even food critics. Their 【B10】 taste does not stern from the kind of potatoes that Donald’s 【B11】 , the technology that processes them, or the restaurant equipment that fries them: other chains use Russet Burbank, buy their French fries from the 【B12】 large processing companies, and have similar 【B13】 in their restaurant kitchens. The taste of a French fry is 【B14】 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 【B15】 .
选项 A、scaled
B、stripped
C、peeled
D、sliced
答案C
解析 本题考查词汇辨析与语篇知识。scale表示“清除或刮去(鱼的)鳞片”，“除去……的积垢或表层(如油漆)”；strip表示“除去或剥去衣物或覆盖层”；peel表示“剥去蔬菜或水果的皮”，也可指树皮、壁纸等的剥落；slice表示“切成薄片”。根据"cut into shoestrings"可排除D。
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