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  3. The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange s

The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange s

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问题     The recent growth of export surpluses on the world
food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly
because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests.
    North America is now being followed by the third. Most of          【S1】______.
Britain’s overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more
this year and home production had also risen.                          【S2】______.
    But the effects of all this on the food situation in this
country has made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices,          【S3】______.
due chiefly to the gradually cutting down of government                【S4】______.
support for food. The shops are overstocked with food not
only because there is more food unavailable, but also because          【S5】______.
people, frightening by high prices, are buying less of it.             【S6】______.
    Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time
when world prices have begun to fall, with the result that
imported food, in the exception of grain, is often cheaper             【S7】______.
than the home-produced variety. But now grain prices, too,             【S8】______.
are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should
not be enabled to benefit from this trend.
    The significance of these developments is not lost on
farmers. The older generation has seen it happen before.               【S9】______.
Despite of the present price and market guarantees, farmers            【S10】______.
fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports
and a shrinking home market.
【S6】
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答案frightening→frightened
解析 frightened by high prices被高价吓坏了。
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