选词填空阅读及参考答案

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Jonathan and his family were on their way to Clever Mountain for a day of hiking. Jonathan sat in the back seat of the car, clutching（抓着）Goggle，his stuffed owl, and looking out through the open window at the 26C mountains, blue streams and shady trees.

As they 27 M a little bridge, the car hit a bump and Goggle went flying out the window. The car stopped on the shoulder, and he raced out just 28F time to see Goggle disappear out of view in the back of a canoe独木舟travelling down the stream,

Carlos picked up the owl from the bottom of his canoe and looked up to see L29 it came from. He thought he could see a young boy standing on the bridge looking down, 30 there was no way he could go back against current(水流）逆流而上. Not having any use for a stuffed owl, he threw it onto the 31 .

An eagle flying overhead saw something down below. It looked like a 32 mouse, so it swooped （俯冲）down and picked it up with its claws爪子. The eagle soon 33 （that）the animal was not edible可以吃的/可以食用的and dropped it on the walking path below.

A little while later, a family came hiking down the 34 .

“Goggle!”exclaimed Jonathan. “How did you get35 ?’’ Goggle couldn’t answer, of course. He just stared at Jonathan with his big, yellow, goggly eyes.

A. tasty adj

B. there

C. majestic adj

D. realized v

E. riverbank n

F. in

G. ugly adj

H. sky n

L where J. here K. when L. path n

M.passed v N. but O. remembered v

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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 the3________ 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 expensive5________ to dry your hair.The cost of the electricity plus the cost of your time could well make your hairdryer the most expensive one of all.

So what principles should you 6_________when you go out shopping? If you keep your home, your car or any valuable 7________ in excellent condition, you'll be saving money in the long run. Before you buy a new 8_________, talk to someone who owns one .If you can, use it or borrow it to check it suits your particular

purpose. Before you buy an expensive 9 ________, or a service, do check the price and what is on offer. If possible, choose 10______three items or three estimates.

［A］possession［B］save［C］best［D］appliance［E］material ［F］from［G］simple--complex［H］with［I］in［J］element ［K］model［L］item［M］easy--difficult［N］adopt［O］reasonable

3

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’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 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 more 4_______ ways of doing it.

The immigrant experience, too, has been one of in harmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nation’s food has come to be 5_______ 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 sit-ins 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 political 6_______.

But strong opinions have not brought 7________ . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 8_______ 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 we 10______ it with friends, family, and strangers—that help define America as a community today.

A.answer （n)

B. result (n)

C. share (v)

D. guilty (n)

E.constant (adj)

F. defined (v)

G. vanish (v)

H. adapted(v)

I.creative (adj)J. belief (n) K. suspicious (adj)L. certainty(n)

M. obsessed (adj)N. identify(v)O. ideals (n)

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Have you ever known anyone famous? If so, you may have found that they are remarkably similar to the rest of us. You may have even heard them __1__ to people saying there is anything different about them.

"I'm really just a normal guy," __2__ an actor who has recently rocketed into the