II.克漏字:30%,每題2分        The MeDonald's Corporation has become a powerful symbol of America's serviceeconomy, 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 thousandrestaurants worldwide and opens almost two thousand new ones each year. A (An) __17__ oneout of every eight workers in the United States has at some point been employed byMcDonald's. The company annually hires about onc million people, more than any otherAmerican organization, publie or private. MeDonald's is the nation's largest __18__ of beet,pork, and potatoes - and the second largest __18__ of chicken. The McDonald's Corporation isthe largest owner of retail property in the world. Indeed, the company earns the majority of itsprofits not from selling food but from collecting rent. McDonald's spends more money onadvertising and marketing than any other brand. As a result it has replaced Coca-Cola as theworld's most famous brand. MeDonald's operates more__19__ than any other private entity inthe [Jnited States. It is one of the nation's largest distributors of toys. A survey of Americanschoolchildrcn found that 96 percent could identify Ronald McDonald. The only Gctionalcharacter with a higher degree of recognition was Santa Claus. The impact of MeDonald's __20__ the way we live today is hard to overstate. The Golden Arches are now more widelyrecognized than the Christian cross.
【題組】16.
(A) operated
(B) curtailed
(C) exploited
(D) employed