分析：同样发现该段中有典型的关键词重复的特征(middlemen)，借助该词初步判断D是答案，而该段最后一句的句意与D一致，因此判断D是答案。
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appear: vi. 出现, 看来；似乎
e.g. The sun appeared on the horizon. 太阳在地平线上出现。
e.g. She appears very tired. 她显得很疲劳。
e.g. He appears to want to leave. 他看来要走
amount n 数量, vi（与to连用） 等于；总计达
e.g. large amounts of /a large amount/sum of money 大量的金钱
e.g. In an invoice the amount of money should be written both in words and in figures. 发票上的钱数要用字和数码写出来。
e.g. Their traveling expenses amount to seven hundred dollars.
他们的旅费共达700 美元。
e.g. Your words amount to a refusal.
你的话等于回绝了。
Less than: 小于
A The Cost of Convenience
B A Surprising Answer Given by the Economists
C The Effect of Inflation
F Housewives’ Need to Find Jobs
5 Who then is actually responsible for the size of the bill a housewife must pay before she carries the food home from the store? The economists at First National City Bank have an answer to give housewives, but many people will not like it. （句意上与B呼应）These economists blame the housewife herself for the jump in food prices. They say that food costs more now because women don’t want to spend much time in the kitchen. Women prefer to buy food which has already been prepared before it reaches the market.
B. 分析：段落中重复的出现了housewife，但不难发现F只是干扰项：Jobs根本在该段中没有出现，对比其他选项发现B是答案（B的大意与该段第2句内容一致）
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responsible adj. （常与to, for连用）有责任的；应负责任的; 负责任的；可靠的
e.g. The bus driver is responsible for the passengers safety.
公共汽车司机应对乘客的安全负责。
prefer vt. 宁可, 宁愿(选择); 更喜欢;
e.g. prefer doing to talking喜欢做而不喜欢说
e.g. prefer to die rather than surrender宁死不屈
比较：refer vt.提交, 提到, 指(的是), 查阅
e.g. the question referred to所谈到的问题
e.g. refer to the dictionary查字典
A The Cost of Convenience
C The Effect of Inflation
F Housewives’ Need to Find Jobs
6 Vegetables and chicken cost more when they have been cut into pieces by someone other than the one who buys it. （该句句意与A最呼应）A family should expect to pay more when several “TV dinners” are taken home from the store. These are fully cooked meals, consisting of meat, vegetables, and sometimes desert, all arranged on a metal dish. The dish is put into the oven and heated while the housewife is doing something else. Such a convenience costs money. Thus, as economists point out: “Some of the basic reasons for widening food price spreads are easily traceable to the increasing use of convenience foods, which transfer much of the time and work of meal preparation from the kitchen to the food processor’s plant.”（该结构含义也是与A最呼应）
分析：段落中没有明显重复出现的词语/短语，但是在段落末尾的句子中发现了A中的核心词（Convenience），但包含该句的句子结构似乎较复杂，所以借助段首句句意解题，判断答案为A。
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other than 除了…，除…之外; 与…不同；与…不同方式
e.g. Theres nobody here other than me. 除了我这里没别人。
e.g. You cant get there other than by swimming. 你只能靠游泳游到那边去。
比较：
rather than不是。。而是；宁可。。而不愿。。
e.g. These shoes are comfortable rather than pretty. 这双鞋不好看，但是舒服。
e.g. We would rather receive money than the usual gifts.
我们宁可接受钱而不希望受到通常的礼物。
more than比。。更加。。
e.g. He is more intelligent than his brother. 他比他哥哥更聪明。
e.g. I like football more than swimming. 我喜爱足球胜过游泳。
transfer vt, vi（常与to连用）迁移；调任；换车；换船
synonyms: deliver, hand over, pass
e.g. His employer transferred him to another office.
老板把他调到了另一个办公室。
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Transmit vt.传输, 转送, 传达,发射
synonyms: dispatch, send over, transfer
Transport vt运输；运送
e.g. The goods were transported by train.
货物是用火车来运输的。
对于该部分题注意利用语法和搭配句意判断答案。
A Nor have the middlemen
B to increase the prices for food
C that they cannot agree on the causes of the increase in prices
D to agree on the reasons for the increase
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