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      The McDonald's Corporation has become a powerful symbol of America's service
economy, which is now responsible for 90 percent of the country's new jobs. In 1968,
McDonald's    16    about one thousand restaurants. Today it has about twenty-eight thousand
restaurauts woridwide and opens almost two thousand new ones each year. A (An)    17    one
out of every eight workers in the United States has at some point been employed by
McDonald's. The company annually hires about onc million people, more than any other
American organization, public or private. MeDonald's is the nation's largest    18    of bcet,
pork, and potatoes - and the second largest 18 of chicken. The MceDonald's Corporation is
the largest owner of retail property in the world. Indeed, the company earns the majority of its
profits not from selling food but from collecting rent. McDonald's spends more money on
advertising and marketing than any other brand. As a result it has replaced Coca-Cola as the
world's most famous brand. McDonald's operates more    19    than any other private entity in
the UJnited States. It is one of the nation's largest distributors of toys. A survey of American
schoolchildren found that 96 percent could identify Ronald McDonald. The only Gictional
character with a higher degree of recognition was Santa Claus. The impact of McDonald's
   20    the way we live today is hard to overstatc. The Golden Arches are now more widely
recognized than the Christian cross.
【題組】16.
(A) operated
(B) curtailed
(C) exploited
(D) employed