Part ⅣReading Comprehension（Reading in Depth）（25 minutes）
Section A
Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat,
but we feel
47______about it afterward. We say we want only the best,
but we strangely enjoy junk food. We’re48______with health and weight loss
but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity(肥胖). Perhaps the49_______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 more50________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
51______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 sitins 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 political52________.
But strong opinions have not brought53_______. Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become54_______of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.
The55________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 we56_______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
47. D 48. M 49. A 50. I
51. F 53. L 54. K 55. J 56. C
