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+2015年英语四级选词填空练习题及答案分析1

2015年英语四级选词填空练习题及答案分析(1) 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 junk food. 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 came to this continent searching for new spices 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 but actually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it.

The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating 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 who arrived here in shackles.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation’s defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political 6 .

But strong opinions have not brought 7 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 8 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.

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 what we eat—and how we 10 it with friends, family, and strangers—that help define America as a community today.

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美国人如何看待食物呢?我们爱吃,但是过后会觉得内疚。我们说我们只要最好的,但是却热衷于享受垃圾食品;我们很重视健康和减肥,但是肥胖却又空前地在蔓延。也许,这种矛盾源于我们的历史。首批来到这个大陆的欧洲人是为了寻找新的香料,但却一无所获;首种经济作物不是用来吃的,而是用来吸得。那时,旨在禁止酗酒的禁酒令,实际上却激发了更多新奇的方法来酗酒。

移民的经历也与此有内在的关系。入乡随俗意味着要吃"典型的美国人"的饮食,但是美国的食物已经被诸如比萨或者热狗这样的舶来品所诠释了。美国最珍贵的一些烹饪来自于戴着镣铐而来的人们。

无论是在波士顿倾茶事件中,还是在南部午餐柜台前的静坐中,食物都曾被用来作为界定斗争的一种手段,这也许是不足为奇的。无论是出于宗教原因而戒酒,还是由于政治避难而戒肉,这都与我们的健康甚至是道德的观念相一致。

但是,这些坚定的观点并不是确定不变的。美国人对他们所吃的食物的态度是矛盾的。我们怀疑我们的食物,特别是当我们更清楚地了解了它们的成分时。

对食物的信仰一直存在于美国人的意识之中。第一个感恩节就把美国人的想象力束缚在食物之中,束缚在我们与朋友对它的分享之中,这并不是偶然的。

答案详解:

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 obsessed 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 creative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 defined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 certainty为正确选项。

8. K 系动词become后应填入一个形容词,和后面介词of形成短语

be/become suspicious of "对……感到怀疑"。

9. J 本句缺一个名词作主语,并且根据和介词in的搭配,可以推断出正确选项belief,(have)belief in sth." 相信……"。

10. C 本句是一般现在时,缺一个动词,且和with 搭配,确定选项为share, share sth. with sb., "与某人分享某事"。

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2010年12月英语四级考试真题 Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. What determines the kind of person you are? What factors make you more or less bold, intelligent, or able to read a map? All of these are influenced by the interaction of your genes and the environment in which you were 47 . The study of how genes and environment interact to influence 48 activity is known as behavioral genetics. Behavioral genetics has made important 49 to the biological revolution, providing information about the extent to which biology influences mind, brain and behavior. Any research that suggests that 50 to perform certain behaviors are based in biology is controversial. Who wants to be told that there are limitations to what you can 51 based on something that is beyond your control, such as your genes? It is easy to accept that genes control physical characteristics such as sex, race and eye color. But can genes also determine whether people will get divorced, how 52 they are, or what career they are likely to choose? A concern of psychological scientists is the 53 to which all of these characteristics are influenced by nature and nurture(养育), by genetic makeup and the environment. Increasingly, science 54 that genes lay the groundwork for many human traits. From this perspective, people are born 55 like undeveloped photographs: The image is already captured, but the way it 56 appears can vary based on the development process. However, the basic picture is there from the beginning. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 [A]abilities [I]extent [B]achieve [J]indicates [C]appeal [K]proceeds [D]complaints [L]psychological [E]contributions [M]raised [F]displayed [N]smart [G]essentially [O]standard [H]eventually 答案Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in depth) 47. M) raised 48. L) psychological 49. E) contributions 50. A) abilities 51. B) achieve 52. N) smart 53. I) extent 54. J) indicates 55. G) essentially 56. H) eventually 2010年6月英语四级考试真题 Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. When we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones – the kind of high-tech, solar-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazines. But the U.S. has more than 100 million existing homes, and it would be __47__ wasteful to tear them all down and __48__ them with greener versions. An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those houses. And it would take an average of 65 years for the __49__ carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the resources lost by destroying an old one. So in the broadest __50__, the greenest home is the one that has already been built. But at the same time, nearly half of U. S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and __51__

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