Directions: In this section, there is apassage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blankfrom a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bankis identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each itemon Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any ofthe words in the bank more than once.
What is itabout Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 1__________ about itafterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk ’re 2__________ with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemicof obesity(肥胖). Perhapsthe 3__________ to this ambivalence(矛盾情結) lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continentsearching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop(經濟作物) wasn’t eaten but smoked. Thenthere was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouragingmore 4__________ ways of doing it.
Theimmigrant 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__________ byimports—pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country’s most treasuredcooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.
Perhaps itshould 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 southernlunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even moralitywhether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat forpolitical 6__________
But strongopinions have not brought 7__________ . Americans are ambivalent about what theyput in their mouths. We have become 8__________ of our foods, especially as welearn more about what they contain.
The 9__________ infood is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It’s no coincidence,then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in suchbondage(束縛). It’s whatwe eat—and how we 10__________ it with friends, family, and strangers—that helpdefine 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
1. D feel是一個系動詞，可以判斷此處應填入一個形容詞，通過上下文意思，以及後面介詞about, 可以確定選項爲D項guilty, 短語feel guilty about sth. “對……感到有愧”。全句的意思爲“我們很愛吃，但是往往在吃完之後又有負罪感”。
2.M beobsessed with 爲固定搭配，原意爲“被……附上/纏住/迷住心竅”，放在本句表示“十分重視”。全句的意思爲“我們很關心健康和減肥，但肥胖卻又空前地在蔓延”。
3. A 本句缺一個名詞作主語，並且根據和介詞to的搭配，可以推斷出正確選項answer.
4. I本句根據more和ways可以判斷出需要填入一個形容詞構成比較級，根據上下文，表示“旨在禁止酗酒的禁酒令，卻激發了更多新奇的方法來酗酒”，可以確定I爲正確選項。
5. F 本題較難。根據be 和by 確定應填入一個過去分詞。再根據上下文，上文表示“應該吃典型的美國人吃的食物”，下文通過 but 轉折，表示實際上“美國的食物已經被諸如比薩和熱狗這樣的舶來品所詮釋了”，因此可以確定F爲正確選項。
6.B政治結果，可根據宗教原因religious reasons來推斷此處填政治結果。
7. L由於橫線後面沒有賓語，可以確定不是形成bring的短語，這樣本句所缺的爲一名詞，做bring的賓語。根據下文解釋，“美國人對他們所吃的食物的態度是矛盾的”，可以推出本句意義爲“堅定的觀點也不是確定不變的”。因此可以確定L爲正確選項。
8. K系動詞become後應填入一個形容詞，和後面介詞of形成短語be/become suspicious of “對……感到懷疑”。
9. J本句缺一個名詞作主語，並且根據和介詞in的搭配，可以推斷出正確選項belief，(have)belief in sth.“ 相信……”。
10. C本句是一般現在時，缺一個動詞，且和with 搭配，確定選項爲share, share sth. with sb.,“與某人分享某事”。
2014年12月英語四級選詞填空習題(二)
Wise buying is a positive way in which you can make your money go further. The way you go about purchasing an article or a service can actually 1__________ you money or can add to the cost. Take the 2__________ example of a hairdryer. If you are buying a hairdryer, you might think that you are making the 3__________ buy if you choose one whose look you like and which is also the cheapest 4__________ price. But when you get it home you may find that it takes twice as long as a more expensive 5__________ to dry your cost of the electricity plus the cost of your time could well make your hairdryer the most expensive one of all.
