新概念英语第三册课文填空训练26 Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin

－ 新概念英语第三册 Lesson 26 Wanted: a large biscuit tin Listen who the prize for biggest biscuit? No one can avoid _____(be) _________(influence) by advertisements. Much as we may _____ ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to _______the things we want, for advertising exerts=____ a subtle ________ on us. In their efforts to persuade us _______(buy) this or that _______, advertisers have made a close study of human _______ and have classified=______ all our little ________(weak). Advertisers ________(discover) years ago that all of us love to get something for _______. An advertisement ______ begins with the magic word FREE can _____(rare) go wrong. These days, advertisers not only _____ free samples, but free _____, free _____, and free _____ round the world as well. They devise hundreds of competitions which will _______ us to win huge sums of money. Radio and television have made it ________(impossible) for advertisers to capture the ________ of millions of people in this way. _______ a radio programme, a company of biscuit manufacturers once asked listeners ______(bake) biscuits and send them to their _______. They offered to pay￡10 a pound for the ______(big) biscuit ______(bake) by a listener. The response to this ___________ was tremendous. Before long, biscuits of all _______ and sizes began _________(arrive) at the factory. One lady ________(bring) in a biscuit on a wheelbarrow. It weighed ______(near) 500 pounds. A little later, a man came along with a biscuit ______ occupied the whole boot of his car. All the biscuits that were sent were _______(careful) weighed. The ______(large) was 713 pounds. It seemed _______(certainly) that this would win the _____. But just ______ the competition closed, a lorry arrived at the factory with a ______(true) colossal biscuit ______ weighed 2,400 pounds. It had been baked by a college