Directions: There are 10 blanks in this passage. Please decide on the best choice.
With today’s busy lifestyles and fluctuating schedules, many Americans eat their meals on the go. No more the 1 three meals a day. Instead, many people eat mini-meals. Four, five, or 2 six times a day. Analysts call it grazing.

Small wonder then that snack food 3 has tripled over the 4 two decades. According to a recent 5 by the US Department of Agriculture, an 6 number of Americans now want healthy snack foods. Many of them are 7 in the supermarket for low-fat potato chips, pretzels 8 even corn chips. And analysts say the testing labs as snack 9 companies has been in overdrive trying to 10 more of these products

(1). (单选题) 6(本题0.5分)
A、 increasing
B、 growing
C、 larger
D、 bigger
学生答案： C
标准答案：A
解析：
得分： 0
(2). (单选题) 10(本题0.5分)
A、 develop

B、 make

C、 build
D、 set

学生答案： B
标准答案：A
解析：
得分： 0
(3). (单选题) 2(本题0.5分)
A、 and
B、 further
C、 more
D、 even
学生答案： B
标准答案：D
解析：
得分： 0
(4). (单选题) 8(本题0.5分)
A、 but
B、 still
C、 moreover
D、 and
学生答案： A
标准答案：D
解析：
得分： 0
(5). (单选题) 4(本题0.5分)
A、 passing
B、 past
C、 passed

D、 post

学生答案： A
标准答案：B
解析：
得分： 0
(6). (单选题) 3(本题0.5分)
A、 consume
B、 consumption
C、 consumer

D、 consuming

学生答案： A
标准答案：B
解析：
得分： 0
(7). (单选题) 1(本题0.5分)
A、 standard
B、 irregular
C、 common
D、 general
学生答案： A
标准答案：A
解析：
得分： 0.5
(8). (单选题) 9(本题0.5分)
A、 dinner

B、 lunch

C、 food

D、 meal

学生答案： C
标准答案：C
解析：
得分： 0.5
(9). (单选题) 5(本题0.5分)
A、 call

B、 visit
C、
survey



D、 buy

学生答案： B
标准答案：C
解析：
得分： 0
(10). (单选题) 7(本题0.5分)
A、 watching
B、 searching
C、 investigating
D、 digging

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