2021年研究生考试英语试题(英语一).pdf

2021 年研究生考试英语试题（英语一） Section I Use of English Directions ： Read the fo owing text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10points) Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than wasonce the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken thisweekend of one of the nations great traditions: the Sunday roast. __1__ acold winters day, few culinary pleasures can __2__it. Yet as we reportnow, the food police are determined that this __3__ should be rendered yetanother guilty pleasure __4__ to damage our health. The Food Standards Authority (FSA) has __5__ a public warning aboutthe risks of a compound called acrylamide that forms in some foods cooked __6__high temperatures.This means that people should __7__ crisping their roastpotatoes, spurn thin-crust pizzas and only __8__ toast their bread. Butwhere is the evidence to support such alarmist advice? __9__ studies haveshown that acrylamide 1 / 53 can cause neurological damage in mice, there is no __10__evidence that it causes cancer in humans. Scientists say the compound is __11__ to be carcinogenicbut have no hard scientifi proof. __12__ the precautionary principle, itcould be argued that it is __13__ to follow the FSA advice. __14__, it wasrumored that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found toprove a __15__. Doubtless a piece of boiled beef can always be __16__ up on Sundayalongside some steamed vegetables,without the Yorkshi