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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?ambivalence(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?experience,?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?surprise?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 　　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.?obsessed 　　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?obsesse