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高中英语新教材精选外刊语法填空9 1 以假乱真？英国多家超市货架空空，用照片替代实物 Supermarkets using cardboard cutouts to hide gaps left by supply issues Tesco has begun using pictures of asparagus(芦笋), carrots, oranges and grapes in its fresh produce aisles（通道）, 1_____(prompt) ridicule（嘲讽） on social media. “Mmmm, delicious photos of asparagus,” one commenter wrote on Twitter.? Look 2_____(careful), another Twitter user wrote alongside a picture of an aisle of laundry detergents. The middle three rows are photographs. Shoppers 3____(spot) fake carrots in Fakenham, cardboard asparagus in London, pictures of oranges and grapes in Milton Keynes, and 2D washing liquid bottles in Cambridge so far. The tactic (对策)comes as shortages of HGV （大卡车）drivers and pickers and packers on farms and food processing plants lead 4_____ low availability of some items in supermarkets. Problems at ports（港口）, 5______ handlers are struggling to cope with a surge in deliveries for the festive season, are also leading to shortages. Bryan Roberts, a retail analyst at Shopfloor Insights, said he had only begun to see the cardboard cutouts of fresh produce in the past year, but said similar tactics had been in place elsewhere in supermarkets for some time. “It has become quite commonplace. It is not only because of shortages, 6_____ because a lot of the larger stores are now simply too big.” He said the cutouts were one of an array of tactics being used 7_____(fill) space, including filling meat fridges with bottles of tomato sauce or mayonnaise(蛋黄酱), spreading packs of beer out across whole aisles, and erecting large posters or other marketing material. Some bulky（体积大） and not very 8_____(profit) items, such as bottled fizzy drinks and water, have also been pushed down the delivery priority list because of driver shortages, meaning there may be 9_____(large) gaps on shelves than usual. The rise of online shopping, has meanwhile led to many supermarkets no longer 10_____(stock) non-food item