问答题 《复合题被拆开情况》 The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly givenway to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing is virtual suspended. and overseas suppliers have been asked【S1】________to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is widespread easiness【S2】________and confusion. Why d0 food prices keep on rising when there seems tobe SO much more food about? Is the abundance only temporary, but has【S3】________it come to stay? Does it mean that we need to think less now aboutproducing more food at home? No one knows what to expect. The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food markethave certainly been unexpectedly great. partly because of a strange【S4】________sequence of two successful grain harvests. North America is now beingfollowed by a three. Most of Britain’s overseas suppliers of meat, too, 【S5】________are offering more this year and home production has also arisen. 【S6】________But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has【S7】________made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly for the【S8】________gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shops are overstocked with food not only as there is more food available, but also【S9】________because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it. Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time whenworld prices have begun to fall, with the result which imported food, 【S10】________with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home—producedvariety. And now grain prices, too, are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from thistrend.《问题》:【S2】
【正确答案】easiness—uneasiness
【答案解析】语义错误。根据该句中的instead of joy以及and后面的confusion可以推断,此处表示人们感到不安,而不是感到很舒服,因此将easiness改为其反义词uneasiness“担心,不安”。