<篇章結構>[題組:第31題到第35題]A main component in the French daily meal, bread was often tied up with the national identity. Studies show that the average 18th-century French worker spent half his daily wage on bread. In 1788 and 1789, however, when the grain crops failed two years in a row, the price of bread shot up to 88 percent of his earnings. ______ The great majority of the French population was starving. (A) External threats closely shaped the course of the Revolution. (B) With the collapse of the royal family, calm was restored gradually. (C) Meanwhile, peasants’ resentment against the gabelle was spreading. (D) The common household could not afford to buy enough food to meet their basic needs. (E) The anger quickly built up, culminating in the massive riots of the French Revolution in 1789. (F) Specifically, bread and salt, two most essential elements in the French cuisine, were at the heart of the conflict.
