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 diousand 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 xorkers in the United States has at some point been employed byMeDonald's. The company annually hires about one million people, more than any otherAmerican organization, public or private. MeDonald's is the nation's largest __18__ of beef,pork, and potatocs - and the sccond 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 cntity inthe United States. It is one of the nation's largest distributors of toys. A survey of Americanschoolchildren found that 96 percent could identify Ronald McDonald. The only fictionalcharacter with a higher degree of recognition was Santa Claus. The impact of McDonald'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) cmployed