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(I) Fast-food is such a pervasive part of American life that it has become (1) ____ with American culture. Fast-food was
born in America and it has now swollen into a $106-billion industry. America exports fast-food worldwide and its
attendant corporate culture, has probably been more influential and done more to destroy local food economies and
cultural diversity than any government propaganda programme could hope to accomplish. No corner of the earth is safe
from its presence and no aspect of life is (2) ____. Fast food is now found in shopping malls, airports, hospitals, gas
stations, stadiums, on trains, and (3) ____, in schools. There are 23,000 restaurants in one chain alone, and another 2,000
are being opened every year. Its effect has been the same on the millions of people it feeds daily and on the people it
employs. Fast-food culture has changed how we work, from its assembly-line kitchens filled with robotic frying machines
(4) ____the trite phrases spoken to customers by its poorly paid part-time workforce. In the United States, more than 57
percent of the population eats meals away from home on any given day and they spend more money on fast-food than
they do on higher education, personal computers, or (5) ____on new cars. 【題組】3. (A) increasingly (B) increasing (C) increased (D) increase
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