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II. Passage Completion: 10% People are funny about food. Throughout history they have 11 others for eating strange things. In 1755 SamuelJohnson’s dictionary defined oats as “a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland 12 thepeople”. Nineteenth-century Japanese nationalists 13 Western culture as bata kusai, or “stinking of butter”. Unkindpeople today 14 Brits as “limeys”, Mexicans as “beaners” and French people as “frogs”. And food-related insults oftenhave a political 15 . In many countries today, politicians who wish to imply that their rivals have lost touch with ordinaryvoters sneer that they are latte-drinkers, muesli-munchers or 16 to quinoa. This South American grain gets a particularly bad 17 . To its fans, it is a superfood. To its detractors, it is like theerotic sci-fi murals found in Saddam Hussein’s palaces—pretentious and tasteless. A headline from Mother Jones, a left-wingmagazine, perfectly captured the confusion of 18 Western foodies: “Quinoa: good, evil or just really complicated?” This newspaper takes no view as to whether quinoa tastes nice. But its spread is a 19 of a happy trend. More andmore people are chomping unfamiliar grains. Rich Westerners are eating less wheat and more of the cereals that people in poorcountries traditionally grow, such as millet, sorghum, teff and yes, quinoa. Middle-class Asians are eating more wheat, in theform of noodles or bread, instead of rice. West Africans are eating 25% more rice per head than in 2006; millet consumptionhas fallen by the same 20 . (AB) rap (AC) deride (AD) partial (AE) symptom (BC) craving (BD) share(BE) well-meaning (CD) yield (CE) supports (DE) mocked (ABC) tinge (ABD) dismissed
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答案：D,E
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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