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第三大題：文意選塡（請依文意，在文章麵纖的選項中分別選出最適當者， 每題1分，共10分）第39至48顆爲顆組 From the 17th century, 39. farmers who wanted to supplement their income from milk - or who just needed a source of sweetener that was better and cheaper than sugar or molasses - drilled small holes in the maple trees during the brief weather window between winter and spring. The farmers called the maple tree stands “sugar bushes” and hung buckets under the drilled holes. Every day or two - depending on how fast the sap was running out of the trees - the farmers would 40. out the buckets into larger containers or tanks and haul the watery substance to a “sugar house” usually built in the woods. Here5s where the magic happened. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup because sap is about 98 % water. Sugar makers boiled off most of the water over a wood fire - what they were left with was brown sweet syrup. Some sugar makers heated the sap 41., turning it into crystallized sugar. Over time, the industry evolved so much that companies from Quebec to Vermont produced ready-made “ 42. ，”essentially giant frying pans with fire boxes built underneath. These days, most serious sugar makers have foregone labor-intensive buckets,43. tubing systems. The holes bored in sugar maples in early spring are usually made with a cordless drill. Sugar makers insert small plastic spouts into the holes and 44. the spouts to huge webs of plastic tubing that route the precious sap into large tanks. Many of these sugar bushes even have vacuum systems that suck the sap out of the trees to increase 45.,along with furnaces and filters that remove some water prior to boiling.The technology has changed dramatically, but in 46. the process is virtually the same. Collect sap and reduce over heat. As the natural foods movement has picked up steam in recent years, maple syrup has become, along with honey, an increasingly attractive 47. to processed cane sugar. Some maple syrup 48. use the liquid sweetener as a substitute for sugar in everything from cakes to stir fry. And let’s not forget the Master Cleanse diet - more accurately a fast - in which people eat nothing for days on end, subsisting only on a drink made of water, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup. 
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(B) empty
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統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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