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University Entrance Exam --> Exercise --> Gap filling
Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
Cotton has been grown for thousands of years in places as (1)............... Apart as Mexico, China, Egypt, and India. American colonists (2)............... to grow cotton in the early 1600s. Before 1800, cotton was a great luxury, more expensive than silk, (3)............... so many workers were needed to pick it. (4)..............., a huge increase in the number of slaves in the American South (5)............... in much greater cotton production and a fall (6)............... the price. This, and the new technology of the industrial (7)..............., made cotton the cheapest fabric in history. By 1820, cotton (8)............... more money for the United States than tobacco, and more money worldwide than sugar. Many Southern farmers and plantation (9)............... believed that slave labor was (10)............... for them to make money growing cotton.
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