单选题 Some time between digesting Christmas dinner and putting your head back down to work, spare a thought or two for the cranberry. It is, of course, a (1) of Christmas: merry bright red, bittersweetly delicious with turkey and the very devil to get out of the tablecloth (2) spilled. But the cranberry is also a symbol of the modern food industry-and in the tale of its (3) from colonial curiosity to business-school case study (4) a deeper understanding of the opportunities and (5) of modern eating.
The fastest growing part of today's cranberry market is for cranberries that do not taste like cranberries. Ocean Spray's "flavoured fruit pieces" (FFPS, to the trade) taste like orange, cherry, raspberry or any (6) of other fruits. They are in fact cranberries. Why make a cranberry taste like an orange? Mostly because it is a (7) little fruit: FFPS have a shelf-life of two years. Better (8) , they keep a chewy texture (9) baked, unlike the fruits whose flavours they mimic, which turn to (10) .
The dynamic that has brought the cranberry to this point is (11) to the dynamic behind most mass-produced goods. Growing (12) provided the (13) to create cheaper and more reliable supply. Cheaper and more reliable supply, (14) , created incentives to find new markets, which increased demand. Thus was the (15) kept churning.
The cranberry is one of only three fruits native (16) North America, growing wild from Maine to North Carolina. (The others are the Concord grape and the blueberry). The American Indians had several names for cranberries, many (17) the words for "bitter" or, more (18) , "noisy". They ate the berries mostly (19) pemmican, but also used them for dye and medicine. And they introduced them to the white settlers--at the first Thanksgiving dinner in 1621, it is said. The settlers promptly renamed this delicacy the "crane berry", (20) the pointy pink blossoms of tile cranberry look a bit like the head of the Sandhill crane.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题是一道词汇题，考查固定动词形式“lie in...”(存在于)的用法。该句破折号后面部分的含义是：“对于现代饮食的机调和困境更深刻的理解存在于越橘从殖民地时期的奇品到商学院案例研究这一发展传说中”。故选项D是正确答案。本题的难点在于本句破折号后面是一个倒装句，以至于“lie”和“in”这个词分开，这就加大了解题的难度。考生要注意倒装句，因为这通常是考点。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。本句中的特殊标点符号(冒号)暗示；本句冒号后面的含义应该与冒号前面所表达的含义相同。冒号后面的含义是：“FFPS的保质期是两年”。故冒号前面应该填入一个表达“时间”概念的词语，由此可以推断选项C“durable”(持久的)是本题的正确答案。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。本句中的“unlike”(与……不同)一词十分重要，暗示此词前后两部分的语意应该存在某种对立关系。“unlike”一词前面的含义是“越橘保持一种耐咀嚼的质地特征”，该词后面的部分应含有“不耐咀嚼的”含义。由此可以推断出本题的正确答案是B“mush”(软绵绵的东西)。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。本段从第二句起论述“供求关系是大多数产品背后的原动力”．该论述暗示：支持越橘发展到目前程度的原动力与大多数产品背后的原动力一样。本段尾句“Thus was the cycle kept churning”(供求关系的循环就这样持续滚动着)暗示“一种循环往复性”，那无差异、无变化性。由此可以推断本题的正确答案是A“similar”(相似的，类似的)。