Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Imagine you are buying an apple in a supermarket. Which do you choose, one with a small brown mark, or one without? Be honest – you’d go for the apple (25) ______ looks perfect. Supermarkets do this too, but on a much larger scale when buying fruit and vegetables from farmers. And what becomes of the ones with marks on them? They are thrown away. So are the ones that are a funny shape or size.
(26) ______ reason for waste is that people buy more food than they can eat and supermarkets do everything they can to (27) ______ this, for example with offers like “Buy one, get one free”. Developed countries waste about 650 million tons of food each year and so do developing countries. (28) ______, the waste happens for very different reasons. As the world's population grows, this problem will only (29)______, so we need to take action urgently.
(Adapted from Navigate)