英语四级阅读理解练习题及解析.docx

. . . . 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 the 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. answer I. creative result J. belief share K. suspicious guilty L. certainty constant M. obsessed defined N. identify vanish O. ideals adapted 【答案及详解】 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