Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 6 to 15.
In “Cerealizing America”, Scott Bruce and Bill Crawford remark that the cereal industry uses 816 million pounds of sugar per year. Americans buy 2.7 billion packages of breakfast cereal each year. If ______(6) end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year's. consumption would ______(7) to the moon and back. One point three (1.3) million advertisements for cereal are broadcast on American television every year at a(n)______ (8) of $762 million for airtime. Only automobile manufacturers spend more money on television advertising than the makers of breakfast cereal.
______(9) of the boxed cereals found in supermarkets contain large amounts of sugar and some contain more than 50% sugar. Cereal manufacturers are very clever in their marketing, making many cereals appear much healthier than they really are by “fortifying” them with vitamins and minerals. Oh, ______(10) - you now have vitamin-fortified sugar!
Before you eat any cereal. read the ingredient list and see how______ (11) sugar appears on the ingredient list. Then check the “Nutrition facts" panel.
There are actually only a small handful of national commercially-branded cereals that are made ______(12) whole grains and are sugar-free. lf you shop at a health food store instead of your local supermarket, you ______(13) to find a healthy, whole grain, sugar-free (or very low sugar) cereal. But ______(14) ! Some of the health food store boxed cereals are sweetened with fruit juice or fructose. Although this may be an improvement______ (15) refined white sugar, this can really skyrocket the calories.
From "Foods T hat Burn Fat‘, Foods That Turn to Fat” by Tom Ventulo.
Trả lời câu hỏi dưới đây:
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Cụm quá khứ phân từ mang nghĩa bị động bổ nghĩa cho “ the empty cereal boxes” nên phải có dạng past participle. Đáp án là C “ If laid end to end…” ( Nếu được đặt nối tiếp nhau)