英语四级阅读理解练习题及解析.pdfVIP

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?c ontinent?searching?for?new?spices?but?went?in?vain.?The?fi rst?cash?crop( 经济作 物)wasn’t?eaten?but?smoked.?Then?there?was?Prohibition,?i ntended?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,?b ut?our? nation ’s?food?has?come?to?be?5?by?imports — pizza,s ay,?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?b een?a?medium?for?the? nation ’sdefining ?struggles,?whether? at?the?Boston?Tea?Party?or?the?sit?ins?at?southern?lunch?? is?integral?to?our?concepts?of?health?and?even?morality?wh ether?one?refrains?from?alcohol?forreligious?reasons?or?ev ades?meat?for?political?6 But?strong?opinions?have?not?brought?7 .?Americans?are?amb ivalent?about?what?they?putin?their?mouths.?We?have?become ?8?of?our?foods,?especially?as?we?learn?more?about?what?th eycontain. The?9?in?food?is?still?prosperous?in?the?American?consciou sness.? It ’s?no?coincidence,?then,that?the?first?Thanksgiv ing?holds?the?American?imagination?in?such?bondage( 束 缚 ).? It ’s?whatwe?eat —and?how?we?10?it?with?friends,?fami ly,?and?strangers — that?help?define?America?as?acommunity? today. A.?answer?I.?creative B.?result?J.?belief C.?share?K.?suspicious D.?guilty?L.?