1、.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 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 ambivalenc
2、e(矛盾情结) lies in our history. The first Europeans cameto 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 butactually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it. The immigrant experienc
3、e, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do meanseating 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 shackles. Perhaps it should come as no sur
4、prise then that food has been a medium for the nation’sdefining 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 forreligious reasons or evades meat for political 6
5、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 Than
6、ksgiving 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. obsessed
7、 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 obsessed with 为固定搭配，原意为“
