选词填空在英语四级考试中,是考生们很难逾越的难关,很多考生做到这类题型都会选择直接放弃。其实,只要大量练习,拿高分并不难。下面小编整理2014.12.20英语四级选词填空模拟题,希望对考生们有帮助。
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. We‘reface an unprecedented epidemic of obesity(肥胖矛盾情结) 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, 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—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槠渀猀 at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for But strong opinions have not brought 7 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.
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 what we eat—and how 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