___8__ value, you can’t buy as many things ___9__ it. No one fully understands why the cost of living keeps ___10__(increase), but economists believe that workers and producers can make prices go up. ( 4 ) Rodney Mace, 35, is married with two young children, and is a part-time teacher of architectural history. “I am ___1__ (constant) surprised by other people’s surprise, ___2__ they come the house and see me cleaning a floor or hanging out the washing. Their eyes open wide at the sight of it! Much of the comment comes form men, ___3_ I am even more surprised at the number of women who comment too.” His wife Jane, ___4__ Oxford graduate in modern languages, has a demanding full-time job. She is ___5__ (direct) of the Cambridge House literacy scheme(扫盲计划) for adults in South London. ___6__ working week involves several evenings and Saturdays, and at these times her husband is ___7__ sole charge of home and family. Apart from this, they share household jobs and employ a child-minder for the afternoons. This ___8__ (able) him to teach two days a week and to do ___9__ he considers his principal work: writing. He has written several books and spends much of his time in the British Museum Reading Room, ___10__ (cycle) there from his home in Brixton. ( 5 ) When Father(神父) Tomas de Berlanga set out upon his dangerous voyage to the New World, early in the 16th century, he carried with ___1__ not only his Books of the Gospel, but also some roots of the rare and ___2__ (high) valued banana plant. With this sweet golden fruit he hoped ___3__ (win) the friendship, and thus to make converts(转变人心), of even the most savage(野蛮的) of Indians. He could not have guessed then that his few roots would spread ___4__ American tropical forest lands until bananas, growing wild, would be as common as the great swamp(沼泽) plants. And he could not have imagined that a day would come ___5__ white men would clear away thousands of acres of those forests to make room for banana plantations.
不错哦 ___6__ is thought by scientists and historians that the banana first grew in southern Asia, and that through many centuries it spread to the east and west __ 7__ now it is found growing in nearly all tropical regions. It does not grow on a tree, ___8__ is commonly supposed, but on a plant, perhaps ___9__ largest plant in existence without a ___10__ (wood) stem. Only one bunch of bananas grows on each plant, but this bunch often weighs 100 pounds or more. ( 6 ) Bananas are always cut while green, even when they are not to be shipped, for if allowed to ripen on the plant they burst and spoil before they can be picked. The largest banana-growing country is Brazil. It produces as much as 5 million tons ___1__ year. ___2__ leading producers are Ecuador(厄瓜多尔), India, Venezuela(委内瑞拉), Honduras(洪都拉斯), Pakistan, Colombia, Panama, the Dominican Republic(多米尼加共和国), and Thailand. The United States imports ___3__ (many) bananas than any other country in the world—about 1,800,000 tons a year. Some bananas ___4__ (grow) in the warmer regions of the United States. Ecuador is the world’s largest
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