大学英语四级选词填空练习(一).doc

大学英语四级选词填空练习（一） 编辑点评：2013年12月的四级考试改革，局部题型发生了变化，英语的选词填空是其中的一个重点。那么，不如通过练习来熟悉一下吧，只要大量练习，那么拿高分也不在话下。 [1] 选词填空练习 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 junk food. Were 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. Its no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage(束缚). Its what we eat—and how we 10 it with friends, family, and strangers—that help define America as a community today. A. answer B. result C. share D. guilty E. constant F. defined G. vanish H. adapted I. creative J. belief K. suspicious L. certainty M. obsessed N. identify O. Ideals [2] 答案详解及翻译 译文参考： 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