2019四級(jí)閱讀理解練習(xí)題及解析(19)

1、2019四級(jí)閱讀理解練習(xí)題及解析(19)【閱讀練習(xí)】What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 1about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junkfood. Were 2 with health andweight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity（肥胖）. Perhaps the 3 to this ambivalence（矛盾情結(jié)）

2、lies in ourhistory. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spicesbut went in vain. The first cash crop（經(jīng)濟(jì)作物）wasnt eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibitdrinking but actually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it.The immigrant experience, too, has been

3、one of inharmony. Do asRomans do means eating what“real Americans”eat, but our nationsfood has come to be 5 by importspizza, say,or hot dogs. And some of the countrys most treasuredcooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been am

4、edium for the nations defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Partyor the sit瞚ns at southern lunchcounters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whetherone refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for politicalBut strong opinions have not brought 7 . Ame

5、ricans are ambivalentabout 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. Itsno coincidence, then, that the firstThanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bond

6、age（束縛）.Itswhat we eat and how we 10 it with friends, family, and strangersthathelp define America as a community today.A. answer I. creativeB. result J. beliefC. share K. suspiciousD. guilty L. certaintyE. constant M. obsessedF. defined N. identifyG. vanish O. idealsH. adapted【答案及詳解】I.D feel是一個(gè)系動(dòng)詞，

7、能夠判斷此處應(yīng)填入一個(gè)形容詞，通過上下文意思，以及后面介詞about,能夠確定選項(xiàng)為D項(xiàng)guilty,短語(yǔ)feel guiltyabout sth.“對(duì) 感到有愧”。全句的意思為“我們很愛吃，但是往往在吃完之后又有負(fù)罪感”。2. M be obsessed with為固定搭配，原意為“被.附上/纏住/迷住心竅”，放在本句表示“十分重視”。全句的意思為“我們很關(guān) 心健康和減肥，但肥胖卻又空前地在蔓延”。3. A本句缺一個(gè)名詞作主語(yǔ)，并且根據(jù)和介詞to的搭配，能夠 推斷出準(zhǔn)確選項(xiàng)answer.4.1本句根據(jù)more和ways能夠判斷出需要填入一個(gè)形容詞構(gòu)成 比較級(jí)，根據(jù)上下文，表示“旨在禁止酗酒的

8、禁酒令，卻激發(fā)了更多 新奇的方法來酗酒”，能夠確定I為準(zhǔn)確選項(xiàng)。5. F本題較難。根據(jù)be和by確定應(yīng)填入一個(gè)過去分詞。再根 據(jù)上下文，上文表示“應(yīng)該吃典型的美國(guó)人吃的食物”，下文通過but轉(zhuǎn)折，表示實(shí)際上“美國(guó)的食物已經(jīng)被諸如比薩和熱狗這樣的舶 來品所詮釋了”，所以能夠確定F為準(zhǔn)確選項(xiàng)。6. B政治結(jié)果，可根據(jù)宗教原因religious reasons來推斷此處 填政治結(jié)果。7. L因?yàn)闄M線后面沒有賓語(yǔ)，能夠確定不是形成bring的短語(yǔ)， 這樣本句所缺的為一名詞，做bring的賓語(yǔ)。根據(jù)下文解釋，“美國(guó) 人對(duì)他們所吃的食物的態(tài)度是矛盾的”，能夠推出本句意義為“堅(jiān)定 的觀點(diǎn)也不是確定不變的”。所以能夠確定L為準(zhǔn)確選項(xiàng)。8. K系動(dòng)詞become后應(yīng)填入一個(gè)形容詞，和后面介詞of形成短語(yǔ)be/become suspic ious of“對(duì).感至P懷疑”。9. J本句缺一個(gè)名詞作