B
It was a time when the simplest foods contained threats, traps and _____27_____ . Not a day went by without some newspaper telling of ghastly discoveries in the housewife’s shopping: cheese was made of plastic, butter from tallow candles; in fruit and vegetables the arsenic of insecticides was concentrated in percentages higher than the vitamin content; to fatten chickens they stuffed them with _____28_____ pills that could _____29_____ the man who ate a drumstick into a chicken himself. Fresh fish had been caught the previous year in Iceland and they put make-up on the eyes to make it seem yesterday’s catch. Mice had been found in several milk bottles, whether _____30_____ was not made clear. From the tins of oil it was no longer the golden juice of the olive that flowed, _____31_____ the fat of old mules, cleverly distilled.
【題組】28. (A) synthetic (B) systematic (C) synchronous (D) symmetrical