试题题干
WORD FORMATION
Complete the following sentence with the proper form of the word in the bracket.
（appearance）Better-paying jobs in the city have attracted many young people from farming, which led to the gradual 
of the farmhands required to operate most farms.
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试题解析
此处缺少名词。
the是冠词，gradual是形容词，形容词修饰名词，所以空格处填名词。再根据句意判断，高薪工作吸引了很多年轻人，导致了农场怎样，可知吸引了人，那么农场可能缺少人手。所以，应该是逐渐的缺少，所以变appearance为disappearance。
句意：城市里收入更高的工作吸引了许多来自农业的年轻人，这导致了农场经营逐渐缺少了农场工人。