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英语四级阅读理解练习题及解析(1)
【阅读练习】
What is it about Americans and food? We love to
eat ,but we feel 1 about it afterward. We say we want o
nly the best, but we strangely enjoy junkfood.We’re 2 with health and weight loss but face an unprec
edented epidemic of obesity(肥
胖 ). Perhaps the 3 to this ambivalence(矛盾情
结) lies in our history. The first Europeans cameto
this continent searching for new spices but went i
n vain. The first cash crop(经济作
物)wasn’t eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibi
tion, intended to prohibit drinking butactually enc
ouraging more 4 ways of doing it.
The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inha
rmony. Do as Romans do meanseating what“real Amer icans ” eat, but our nation ’s food has come to be
5 by imports—pizza,say, or hot dogs. And some of t
he country ’s most treasured cooking comes from peo ple whoarrived here in shackles.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that foo
d has been a medium for th
e nation ’sdefining strug gles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit?in
s at southern lunch counters.It is integral to our
concepts of health and even morality whether one
re frains from alcohol forreligious reasons or evades
meat for political 6
But strong opinions have not brought 7 . Americans
are ambivalent about what they putin their mouths.
We have become 8 of our foods, especially as we
lea rn more about what theycontain.
The 9 in food is still prosperous in the American c onsciousness. It ’s no coincidence, then,that the f irst Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage( 束
缚 ). It ’s whatwe eat—and how we 10 it with friend
s, family, and strangers—that help define America
as acommunity today.
A. answer I. creative
B. result J. belief
C. share K. suspicious
D. guilty L. certainty
E. constant M. obsessed
F. defined N. identify
G. vanish O. ideals
H. adapted
【答案及解】
1.D feel 是一个系，可以判断此填入一个形
容，通上下文意思，以及后面介about, 可以确定
D guilty,短feel guilty about sth.“ ⋯⋯
感到有愧”。全句的意思“我很吃，但是往往在吃完
之后又有罪感”。
2.M be obsessed with固定搭配，原意“被⋯⋯
附上 / 住 / 迷住心”，放在本句表示“十分重”。全句
的意思“我很关心健康和减肥，但肥胖却又空前地在蔓
延”。
3. A本句缺一个名作主，并且根据和介to 的搭配，可以推断出正确answer.
4.I 本句根据 more 和 ways 可以判断出需要填入一个形容
构成比，根据上下文，表示“旨在禁止酗酒的禁酒
令，却激了更多新奇的方法来酗酒”，可以确定 I 正确。
5.F 本。根据 be 和 by 确定填入一个去分。再根据上下文，上文表示“ 吃典型的美国人吃的食物”，下文通 but 折，表
示上“美国的食物已被如比和狗的舶来品所了”，因此可以确定
F正确。
6.B 政治果，可根据宗教原因religious reasons来推断此填政治果。
7. L由于横后面没有，可以确定不是形成bring 的短，本句所缺的一名，做bring的。根据
下文解，“美国人他所吃的食物的度是矛盾的”，可以推出本句意“ 定的点也不是确定不的”。因
此可以确定L 正确。
8.K 系 become后填入一个形容，和后面介
of 形成短 be/become suspicious o f “ ⋯⋯感到
疑”。
9. J本句缺一个名作主，并且根据和介in 的搭配，可以推断出正确belief，
(have)belief in sth. “相信⋯⋯”。
