英语四级阅读理解练习题及解析
【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?only?the?best,?but?we?strangely?enjoy?junkfood.?We’re?2?with?health?and?weight?loss?but?face?an?unprecedented?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?煮酒听雨arching?for?new?spices48寸是多少厘米?but?went?in?vain.?The?first?cash?crop(经济作物)wasn’t?eaten?but?smoked.?Then?there?was?Prohibition,?intended?to?prohibit?drinking?butactually?encouraging?more?4?ways?of?doing?it.
The?immigrant?experience,?too,?has?been?one?of?inharmony.?Do?全国职业院校技能大赛as?Romans?do?meanating?what?“real?Americans”?eat,?but?our?nation’s?food?has?come?to?be?5?by?imports—pizza,say,?or?hot?dogs.?And?some?of?the?country’s?most?treasured?cooking?comes?from?people?whoarrived?here?in?忠于职守shackles.
Perhaps?it?should?come?as?no?surpri?then?that?food?has?been万兽之王是谁?a?medium?for?the珠海景山公园?nation’sdefining?struggles,?whether?at?the?Boston?Tea?Party?or?the?sitins?at?southern?lunch?counters.It?is?integral?to?our?concepts米汤怎么熬?of?health?and?even?morality?whether?one?refrains?鳞次栉比的近义词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?learn?more?about?what?theycontain.
The?9?in?food?is?still?prosperous?in?the?American?consciousness.?It’s?no?coincidence,?then,that?the?first?Thanksgiving?holds?the?American?imagination?in?such?bondage(束缚).?It’s?whatwe?eat—and?how?we?10?it?with?friends,?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.?obsd
F.?defined?N.?identify
G.?vanish?O.?ideals
H.?adapted
【答案及详解】
1.?D?feel是一个系动词，可以判断此处应填入一个形容词，通过上下文意思，以及后面介词about, 可以确定选项为D项guilty, 短语feel?guilty?about?sth. “对……感到有愧”。全句的意思为“我们很爱吃，但是往往在吃完之后又有负罪感”。
2.M?be?obsd?with?为固定搭配，原意为“被……附上/缠住/迷住心窍”，放在本句表示“十分重视”。全句的意思为“我们很关心健康和减肥，但肥胖却又空前地在蔓延”。
3.?A?本句缺一个名词作主语，并且根据和介词to的搭配，可以推断出正确选项answer.
4.?I本句根据more和ways可以判断出需要填入一个形容词构成比较级，根据上下文，表示“旨在禁止酗酒的禁酒令，却激发了更多新奇的方法来酗酒”，可以 确定I为正确选项。
5.?F?本题较难。根据be?和by?确定应填入一个过去分词。再根据上下文，上文表示“应该吃典型的美国人吃的食物”，下文通过?but?转折，表示实际上“美国的食物已经被诸如比萨和热狗这样的舶来品所诠释了”，因此可以确定F为正确选项。
6.B政治结果，可根据宗教原因religious?reasons来推断此处填政治结果。
7.?L由于横线后面没有宾语，可以确定不是形成bring的短语，这样本句所缺的为一名词，做bring的宾语。根据下文解释，“美国人对他们所吃的食物的态 度是矛盾的”，可以推出本句意义为“坚定的观点也不是确定不变的”。因此可以确定L为正确选项。
